Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage Otherwise all are here

Otherwise all are here

a renowned Nova Scotia-based Canadian carver who became known in the 1960s for his sleek

Her teachers included Stig Lindberg

both potters died in 2005

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage Otherwise all are hereIn the 1960s, Fornasetti produced a series called Le Arpie Gentili (the genteel harpy) featuring the heads of famous Italian Opera singers on the bodies of song birds in cages a clever take on the mythological half woman, half bird personification of a storm wind. There seems to have been a set of eight plates produced with single "harpies" but this oval plate with a pair of them seems much rarer (I found just two out there anywhere like this one,