ALDO LONDI CANDLESTICKS AND ASHTRAY FOR BITOSSI CERAMICHE

A mod, '60s-era, three-piece ashtray/candlestick set designed by the legendary Maestro of Italian ceramics Aldo Londi for BITOSSI CERAMICHE and distributed in the US by Rosenthal Netter.  The flawless, glossy-black glaze is accented by concentric white circles standing out in stark relief.  The entire set is near-pristine! (Dimensions below describe the ashtray; each candlestick stands 14.5 cm tall and has a diameter of 9.5 cm.) ALDO LONDI was one of the most celebrated Italian ceramicists of the past century.  He spent most of a long, successful career creating exceptional works of great art and technique for the Italian manufactory BITOSSI CERAMICHE.  Londi’s birthplace of Montelupo Fiorentino (on the outskirts of Florence) had been a major center of pottery production during the Renaissance, and in 1922 it was the home of Fratelli Fanciullacci, the region's premier ceramics workshop.  Londi began work there at the young age of eleven.  Following World War II, upon returning to Mont