Description: RARE AND STRIKING ANTIQUE MID-CENTURY MODERN ABSTRACT CERAMIC SCULPTURAL VASE BY REVERED ITALIAN SCULPTOR AND MASTER CERAMIST DANTE BALDELLI. (Italian 1904-1953). THIS WORK WAS EXECUTED IN THE 1950s. IT IS SIGNED AND NUMBERED ON THE BOTTOM. MADE IN ITALY . EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS: 6”H x 9”W Dante Baldelli (1904-1953) is known for Sculpture. Baldelli ceramics have been made by Ceramiche Baldelli in Città di Castello, near Perugia, Italy, since 1943. The Baldelli family have been making ceramics for four generations. Ceramist Dante Baldelli (1904-1953), a ceramist working since the 1920s, who became the director of Ceramica Rometti di Umbertide, opened his own workshop in 1943, in piazza Gioberti, Città di Castello, accompanied by his brother Angelo and gradually assisted by his oldest son Massimo, who was eight at the time but who took over the business at the unexpected death of his father in 1953, aged eighteen; under his leadership production was being sold in US department stores from the 1970s. During the 1980s, Massimo Baldelli's daughter Simona and her husband Lorenzo Colacicchi joined the family business. In the early 1990s the Baldelli studio resited to the country outside Città di Castello.
Price: 1000 USD
Location: Pasadena, California
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Origin: Italy
Antique: Yes
Signed By: Baldelli
Year Manufactured: 1950s
Item Length: 9 In
Vintage: Yes
Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original
Item Height: 6 In
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Features: Hand Painted, Decorative
Production Style: Art Pottery
Finish: Matte
Handmade: Yes
Item Width: 9 In
Pattern: Abstract
Signed: Yes
Color: Multicolor
Material: Ceramic
Subject: Abstract Art
Brand: Baldelli
Type: Vase
Era: Mid 20th Century (1941-1969)
Theme: Italian, Abstract, Art
Time Period Manufactured: 1950-1959
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
Production Technique: Pottery
Backstamp: Impressed
Product Line: Baldelli
