Rare Dante Baldelli Vase 1940s.
Rare ceramic vase from the late 1940s made by Dante Baldelli.
Moulded on the lathe, decorated over the glaze, the golden lustre was applied in the third firing.
The vase is in perfect condition.
About the Designer
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.
Period
1940-1950
Place of Origin
Italy
Condition
Good Vintage Condition.
Dimensions
15cm x 15cm x 21.5cm
Rare ceramic vase from the late 1940s made by Dante Baldelli.
Moulded on the lathe, decorated over the glaze, the golden lustre was applied in the third firing.
The vase is in perfect condition.
About the Designer
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.
Period
1940-1950
Place of Origin
Italy
Condition
Good Vintage Condition.
Dimensions
15cm x 15cm x 21.5cm
Rare ceramic vase from the late 1940s made by Dante Baldelli.
Moulded on the lathe, decorated over the glaze, the golden lustre was applied in the third firing.
The vase is in perfect condition.
About the Designer
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.
Period
1940-1950
Place of Origin
Italy
Condition
Good Vintage Condition.
Dimensions
15cm x 15cm x 21.5cm