Mid Century Aldo Londi Bitossi Rimini Blue Glazed Ceramic Centerpiece Bowl

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Italian midcentury Aldo Londi Bitossi Rimini blue ceramic centerpiece bowl, Italy, 1950-1960s. Unusual large scale 14,17 in diameter Mid-Century Modern … Read more Italian midcentury Aldo Londi Bitossi Rimini blue ceramic centerpiece bowl, Italy, 1950-1960s. Unusual large scale 14,17 in diameter Mid-Century Modern blue glazed ceramic (Rimini Blu) round footed bowl / centerpiece. Designed by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design in a glazed vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue. Lovely to be used as vide-poche, serving bowl, centerpiece or fruit bowl.
Measures:
28,5 cm diameter x 8,5 cm H // 11,22 in diameter x 3,34 in H
Condition: There is a tiny fleck on the top edge of the bowl. Please review photos.
About Bitossi (Manufacturer)
Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass.
The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” See less