LARGE BITOSSI CENTERPIECE BOWL WITH GOLDEN FISH MOTIF

A beautiful centerpiece or fruit bowl with a decor of golden fish on a background of blue and green, designed in the 1960s by Aldo Londi for Bitossi Ceramiche and imported into the USA by the Goodfriend Company. ALDO LONDI (1911-2003) was one of Italy's most noted master ceramicists who spent most of his long and successful career creating exceptional works of great art and craft for the Italian ceramics manufactory Bitossi Ceramiche. Londi’s hometown just outside of Florence, Montelupo Fiorentino, has been an important center for pottery production since the Renaissance. In 1922, at the age of eleven, Londi started working for Fratelli Fanciullacci, the region’s premier ceramics workshop at the time. Following World War II—upon returning to Italy from South Africa, where he was a prisoner of war—Londi became Bitossi’s Creative Director. He would hold this position for more than 50 years and would design over 1,000 objects—ranging from jugs and vases to clocks and animal figurines. Lon