Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage both potters died in 2005

both potters died in 2005

Her teachers included Stig Lindberg

and just a satisfying object

and to pour a whisky and set this out on a table near a fireplace on a winter's day is about the most fabulous thing I can imagine

Charcoal and white chalk on on paper (ground is charcoal as well)

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage both potters died in 2005In 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,