Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone
Fausto Melotti
Two Unique Vases
Auction Closed
June 9, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Art & Design from The Collection of Barbara Gladstone
Fausto Melotti
1901–1986
Two Unique Vases
glazed polychrome ceramic
each signed Melotti with the artist's cipher
i. 17 ⅝ by 5 by 4 ¾ in. 44.8 by 12.7 by 12.1 cm.
ii. 9 ⅜ by 4 ⅞ by 4 ½ in. 23.8 by 12.4 by 11.4 cm.
Executed circa 1950.
i. Bernd and Eva Hockemeyer, Bremen, Germany
Christie’s Milan, May 26, 2008, lot 74
Galerie du Passage, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014
ii. Christie's Milan, May 23, 2006, lot 321
Galerie du Passage, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2014
Antonella Commellato and Marta Melotti, Fausto Melotti: L'Opera in Ceramica, Milan, 2003, p. 267, no. 225 (for the taller vase illustrated)
Sotheby's would like to thank the Fausto Melotti Archives for their assistance with the cataloguing of this lot.