1960s ALDO LONDI ‘ETRUSCAN’ TABLE LAMP FOR BITOSSI CERAMICHE

An 'Etruscan' décor table lamp designed by Aldo Londi for BITOSSI CERAMICHE of Italy.  Four impressed medallions are featured on a beautifully subtle glaze comprised of shades of dark green, orange, and turquoise applied to a vaguely rectangular form with rounded corners and edges.  The ceramic body is topped with a thick, solid walnut neck and a drum shade in golden silk.  The beauty of the glaze is difficult to capture in photographs. 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