PETUCCO & TOLIO BOTTLE VASE MARKED “P.T. 964”

A tall blue ceramic bottle vase from the workshop of Petucco & Tolio of Nove, Italy.  They hand painted decor consists of two abstracted musical instruments on opposite sides of the vase.  one appears to be a guitar and the other a mandolin. PETUCCO & TOLIO was founded in 1945 by the partners Giovanni Petucco (1910-1961), Andrea Tolio and Gino Cuman  in Nove, Italy in the province of Vicenza, with headquarters in via Molini 44.  Under the direction of Giovanni Petucco, the program of production consisted predominantly of vases, ornaments and bases for lamps, but the specialty of the company was the production of interesting decorative panels in both traditional and modern styles.  Giovanni Petucco also produced many important one of a kind works in the furnaces of Petucco & Tolio to be presented on multiple occasions at the Venice Biennale (1948 & 1956), the Milan Triennale, and at the National Exhibition of Ceramics in Vicenza (1949 & 1961).  Over the years, the ma