Featured Potties ,Italian pottery help ?

Hi all . Picked this up today because it called to me from across the store ! It was in a section I never go in,but the blue caught my eye. Its 12 inches high,6 wide. I know its Italian,I know its Vietri but dammed if I can find another one . Id also like to know who AF is .Ant thoughts are appreciated.

 

That is kinda fab.

Debora

 

Well that’s certainly odd,also can’t find another one. Sorry

 

Me either. Sometimes we get lucky this way.

https://www.vietri.com/pages/contact-us

Debora

 

I will give it a stab. Im glad it wasnt just my lame search skills !

 

It's super cool!

 

It's absolutely fantastic. Unusual it's dated and seems to be signed with initials. Definitely follow up the research. Lucky find!

 

The golden yellow and blue work so well together. I love it

 

many LIKES !!

 

Thanks everyone ! Im loving it too. I shot off an email to that link Deborah shared and I'll let yall know as soon as I hear back. It was mixed in with the lamp aisle,wich I never go down,so my 1st initial eye scan glanced at it,saw the pampas grass in it (I hate pampas grass!) and rolled on. But that flash of blue struck me so I went and looked at it. When I saw it was Vietri I plotzed ! It just spoke to me so here it sits. Ive actually spent a few hours trying everything I can think of to pin it down. Most frustrating !

 

Gorgeous, johnny. Love the way that blue glaze from the inside drips over the rim, calculated carelessness.
Looks Modernist, but could be later.

 

I heard back from them and they say it isnt one of theirs ?

 

How interesting. But it does look a bit more sophisticated than their usual offering. Did they have any ideas about whose it might be? I did find a artist working in Vietri with the initials A.F. Let me see if I can find it again. Here... Antonio Franchini. Doesn't look like his work though.

Debora

 

The search continues. They said its likely from another factory in Vietri.

 

The Vietri Ceramics Museum may be able to help but I can't locate a web site. Perhaps someone else would have more luck.

Debora

 

There is the Provincial Ceramics Museum Villa Guariglia in Raito, a suburb of Vietri. They don't seem to have a website, but they host a ceramics research project called Mater Ceramica:

https://materceramica.org/poi/museo-provinciale-della-ceramica-di-villa-guariglia/

The email address of the research project:

materceramica@confindustriaceramica.it

The site is in Italian only, but I'm sure someone speaks English.
If you know Spanish (being of Cuban origin), you can try that too. In Italy I always spoke Spanish with the odd Italian expression thrown in.

Some photos of the museum on another site:

https://www.prolocovietrisulmare.it/cosa-vedere/museo-della-ceramica/

 

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Nothing ventured,nothing gained ! I'll give it a shot. Thank you so much .