Marcello Fantoni Platters and Serveware

This is a large Wedgwood creamware platter with a beautiful band of pink daisies with green leaves. The pink and green complement each other perfectly. It's a happy pattern! The plat...

Early 19th century blue and white well and tree platter, the border has panels, one with oriental men with a fence and urn in the background, the other with two birds, tree and bee;...

Italian artist Marcello Fantoni's Small Ceramic Vases are being offered as a collection. These pieces were acquired directly from the artist by the...

Marcello Fantoni Ceramic wall plaque, Depicting a Knight on a horse. Signed Fantoni. Italy 1950s

Marcello Fantoni (1915-2011) sculptor, ceramicist, metalworker, multi-media artist and designer Born in Florence in 1915, Marcello Fantoni began studying ceramic art at age 12 at the Art Institute of Florence with ceramicist Carlo Guerrini, artistic director of the famed Cantagalli Factory. He continued years of training in ceramics and the arts, including sculpture with Libero Andreotti and Bruno Innocenti, and figurative art with Gianni Vagnetti, graduating as a maestro of art in 1934. After a stint as art director for a ceramics factory in Perugia, in 1936 he opened the Fantoni Ceramic Studio in Florence. Here he produced ceramic series as well as unique pieces, sculptures and furnishings. In 1937 Fantoni’s pieces were exhibited in the Florence National Arts and Crafts Exhibit where their unique combination of rustic forms decorated with African and marine motifs and painted figures garnered considerable acclaim. By the start of World War II Fantoni’s melding of ancient Italian pottery techniques with decidedly Modernist elements had won him artistic and commercial success both in Italy and abroad. Having participated in the resistance, after the War Fantoni worked for the 500-year old Maiolica factory in Deruta, Umbria, renowned for its signature tin-glazed pottery. In the 1950s he refocused on his Florence studio, dedicating himself to larger sculptural pieces...

Tall slender vase by Marcello Fantoni with applied enamel and various geometric shapes and colors, early factory mark, Italy.

Marcello Fantoni (born 1915) beautiful ceramic dish or vide-poche, signed, in excellent condition.  

International Silver Co "Early American" 4133 Oval Meat Cutlery Serving Platter. Item features a scalloped edge and original hallmark. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 1.5" H...

Italian modern vase created by Marcello Fantoni, circa 1960's. Vase measures 10.5" by 4" and is signed Fantoni, Italy on the bottom. In very good vintage 1960's condition.

Very unusual and beautifully made polished Belgian black marble dish with a wonderful copper repousse band with decoration typical of the Vienna Sece...

A ceramic table lamp with green and brown spotted glaze covered in figurative line etchings. Marked "Marcello Fantoni for Marbro Italy".

Rare antique English "Wedgwood" creamware (earthenware) hand painted platter with rare early impressed "WEDGWOOD" mark. Superb condition but for...