Piero Fornasetti Summer 2015
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc. www.vandekar.com 1
Earle D. Vandekar of Knightsbridge, Inc. Tel: 212-308-2022 Email: info@vandekar.com & Web: www.vandekar.com Front Page: A Piero Fornasetti Neiman Marcus 60th Anniversary Plate & Original Box, 1967. This 1967 commemorative plate features a stunning fashion illustration highlighting changes in women's styles since the founding of the department store in 1907
Diameter: 9 1/2 inches (NY8151)
Price: $850
The exhibition “Piero Fornasetti: the Practical Madness�, a collection of more than one thousand pieces by Fornasetti, is on view till mid-June at the main Nave of Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris.
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Two Rare Piero Fornasetti Zodiac Plates, Capricorn & Leo, Dated 1964 & 1965. Diameter: 8 1/4 inches
(NY8145)
Price: $1000 each
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A Hydrangea Leaf (Ortensia) Fornasetti Rug, by Roubini Rugs, Wool & Silk, Circa 2008. The rug, an over-scaled hydrangea leaf (Hydrangea hortensia) against a velvety black background, was created by Roubini Rugs, riffed off of the work of Milanese painter, sculptor, interior decorator, and engraver Piero Fornasetti in association with the Fornasetti Atelier. The rugs were hand knotted in fine New Zealand wool and silk and were originally available through Neiman Marcus or Roubini. Dimensions: 4 foot x 6 foot 7 inches
Reference: From an article in the Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2008. For the first time, artist Piero Fornasetti's famous works have been translated into silk by Roubini Rugs, a 25-year-old New York manufacturer. At around $12,000, the rugs often go underneath glass tables, company vice president Jonathan Roubini said, or buyers use them to fill large walls. " ugs are three-dimensional,"Roubini said, citing Fornasetti's Ortensia rug -- a hydranR gea leaf with carved lines and a raised butterfly. "If you put it on the floor or the wall, it's not flat. It's alive."
(NY8089)
Price: $7500
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A Set of Six Different Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Plates, Early 1960's. Diameter: 10 1/4 inches (NY8148)
Price: $5500
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A Set of Six Piero Fornasetti Strumenti Musicali Plates, Numbered 1-6, 1960's. Diameter: 10 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, edited by Barnaba Fornasetti, page 615, #164 for a colour illustration. (NY8147)
Price: $5500
Note: Third set available.
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A Set of Six Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Bird Plates, Uccelli Calligrafici Pattern, Circa 1962. The plates depict a stylized bird in black on white ground. All numbered #1 from a set of six. Diameter: 8 1/2 inches (NY8130)
Price: $2500
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A Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Pizza Recipe Plate, Pizza alla Paoletta, Circa 1955. Diameter: 10 inches (NY8143)
Price: $575
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A Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate, Dated 1966. The bronze gilt plate has a central panel in black and white depicting a celestial globe with panels containing numbers and a central armorial device surmounted with a banner reading AD REP ERIENDAS DECLINA TIONES STELLARVM FI XARVM.
Diameter: 9 3/8 inches (NY7899)
Price: $850
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Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Astrolabe Plate, Dated 1969. The bronze gilt plate has a central panel in black and white depicting a globe with circular bands containing Arabic calligraphy with a banner above reading AD HABE NDUM HORAM INEQVALEM ET QVATVOR ANGVLOS CELI IN DIE.
Diameter: 9 3/8 inches (NY8104)
Price: $850
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A Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Boxed Coaster Set with Love, Hearts and Sayings, Circa 1960's. Diameter: 4 inches
(NY8042)
Price: $1250
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International Cocktail Series with Original Yellow Box. 1950's. Diameter: 3 1/8 inch (NY7936)
Price: $1250
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A Set of Piero
Velieri Tall ship Porcelain Coasters with Original Box, 1950's-1960's. The set of eight Piero Fornasetti porcelain coasters each depict a different Spanish Galleon. The coasters come with their original blue box with a compass printed on the cover. Diameter: 4 inches (NY8150)
Price: $675
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There are 14 different plates, each was given as a gift at New Year.
The Fleming Joffe company was a small leather goods company in New York. Fornasetti was not the only famous artist this company worked with. Andy Warhol produced ads and copy for them as well as decorating their show booths and showroom.
Diameter: 10 1/4 inches Price: $850 each
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Vintage Piero Fornasetti Telephone Insulator Paper Weight, 1956. Dimensions: 3 1/2 inches tall x 2 1/2 inches wide (NY8132)
Price: $550
A Pair of Vintage Piero Fornasetti Malachite Plates with Neoclassical Scenes, Cammei. Diameter: 9 7/8 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 609, #144 for gold ground plates with similar oval neo-classical panels. (NY8125)
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A Rare Piero Fornasetti Black and White Malachite Stoviglie, #4, 1950-70. Diameter: 10 1/2 inches (NY8149)
Price: $750
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A Set of Six Piero Fornasetti Arcimboldesca-Motif Vegetable Face Plates, Circa 1960's-1970's.
The plates are from a set of twelve after Arcimboldo-the design of a face created with the use of vegetables. Diameter: 9 1/4 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Illustrated: p 616, #168 Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Patrick Mauries, Page 259, for a set of these plates. (NY8140)
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A Set of Six Piero Fornasetti Plates with Commedia dell’arte Figures. Serie Maschere italiane (Italian Masks), 1950's. This series depicts different characters from the Commedia dell'arte. Each figure is named on the front. Diameter: 10 1/2 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 581, #77 for colour illustration of the harlequin plate from series and Page 615, #164. for illustration of four from series.
(NY8053)
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A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Plate, Tema e Variazioni #164 . Diameter: 8 1/4 inches (NY8129)
Price: $375
A Vintage Fornasetti Plate Tema a Variazioni #183.
Diameter: 6 inches (NY8081) Price: $375
A Piero Fornasetti Plate from the Tema e Variazioni Series, Number 39. 1960-70's. Diameter: 10 inches (NY7819) Price: $600
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A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate, Number 118. Circa 1980's. Diameter: 10 inches (NY7840-3)
Price: $600
A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate, Number 118. Circa 1980's. Diameter: 10 inches (NY7840-4)
Price: $600 A Rosenthal Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate #35. 1980's. During the 1980's Rosenthal helped revive Fornasetti's reputation by applying some of his most enduring illustrations on their products. Diameter: 9 1/4 inches (NY7885) 21
Price: $600
A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Blue Dish with Gilt Pipe and Tobacco Motif, 1950's-1960's. Dimensions: 6 1/2 inches x 5 inches (NY7887A)
Two Fornasetti Small Jewelry Trays with a hand with exotic rings, 1960’s. Dimensions: 6 1/2 inches x 5 inches
Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 570, #47 . (NY8098/9)
Price: $650 each
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Price: $425
A Rare Piero Fornasetti Matador Plate, Tori & Toreri Pattern, Circa 1962. Beginning in 1960 and continuing through the early 1980s Bloomingdale's shot to international fame with block-bluster shopping events sourcing specially-created pieces from all over the world. Bloomingdale's Romance Everlasting promotion took place in 1962, thus providing an accurate age and provenance of this unusual Fornasetti plate. This limited-edition piece was available only in the NYC Flagship Store. (NY7646)
Price: $400 A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Coffee Set , Architettura Series, 1950's. The set of six cups and saucers with original box.
Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Edited by Barnaba Fornasetti, page 586, #84 where the cups are described as one of the most successful sets produced. (NY7647)
Price: $1250 for set
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A Set of Twelve Piero Fornasetti Black & White Plates Depicting Eve, Designed 1954. A complete set of vintage black and white plates which as a group depict Eve.
Diameter: 10 1/2 inches See: Fornasetti: Designer of Dreams, Patrick Mauriès, page 238, the author writes- The idea of dividing up the bodies of Adam and Eve into twelve dinner plates is surely one that no one but Fornasetti could have. They were made in 1954. Each plate has its attractions, but like a jigsaw puzzle they only reveal their meaning when seen together. (NY8088)
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Price: $6000
A Set of Twelve Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Plates, Four Frutti Pattern, #1 in Series, 1960's. Diameter: 10 1/4 inches (NY8082)
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A Massive Piero Fornasetti Special Commission Plaque, 1950's. A Large coloured panel designed for the Hilton in Istanbul by Piero Fornasetti. The plaque features Iznik Pottery Vessels and Ceramic Tiles in shades of blue and red. It is a hand-painted lithograph, transfer-printed onto Masonite. Condition is excellent. Dimensions: 47 inches x 23 1/2 inches wide Reference: Published in Fornasetti The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 456, #121. (NY7670)
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Price: $7500
A Piero Fornasetti Tray with the Strumenti Muscicali su Musica Pattern, 1990's. Dimensions: 10 inches x 23 1/4 inches (NY8034)
Price: $1500
A Piero Fornasetti Tray with the Bicchieri di Boemia Pattern, mid-1950's. Dimensions: 10 inches x 23 1/4 inches Authenticated by Barnaba Fornasetti.
(NY8030)
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Price: $2500
A Piero Fornasetti Tray with the Trofeo di Caccia Pattern, Musical Trophies Pattern, Early 1950's. Dimensions: 10 inches x 23 1/4 inches (NY8031)
Price: $2500
A Piero Fornasetti Tray with the Tre Pesci Pattern, Three Fish, 1950's. Dimensions: 10 inches x 23 1/4 inches (NY8033)
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A Large Vintage Piero Fornasetti Fruit Tray. 1950’s. The black oval tray is decorated with a large bowl full of cherries.
Dimensions: 13 1/2 inches x 17 3/4 inches (NY08146)
Price: $2500
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A Large Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Sun & Moon Serving Tray, Soli E Lune, Circa 1960's. The sun, moon and stars are just a few examples that Piero Fornasetti depicted in his unique graphic style. His Suns & Moons or Soli E Lune designs are arguably his most recognizable after Themes and Variations. This is the first time we have encountered such a large porcelain serving tray.
Dimensions: 11 1/4 inches wide x 13 1/4 inches high x height: 1 1/4 inches Reference: Not surprisingly, this work is featured very prominently in Rizzoli's Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 596. (see above right) (NY7844)
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A Piero Fornasetti Porcelain Wiener Schnitzel Recipe Plate, Ricette Pattern, No. 4 in Series. 1950-1970. Diameter: 10 1/2 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 615, #164 (center). The pattern International Recipes was only issued in English. (NY7905)
A Vintage Piero Fornasetti Dish or Dog Bowl Decorated with a Cocker Spaniel, Circa 1960's. The deep circular dish is decorated with a cocker spaniel on a gold ground. There is wear on the gold ground leading us to believe that this was used as dog bowl.
Diameter: 5 inches (NY7952)
Price: $750
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Price: $495
Piero Fornasetti Bowl , in the Giostra di Frutta Pattern, Circa 1960's. The pattern Giostra di Frutta translates as a Merry-go-round of fruit.
Diameter: 5 1/2 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, page 616 for illustration of plates in series. (NY7978)
A Piero Fornasetti Mug in the Giostra di Frutta Pattern, 1960's. Dimensions: 3 3/4 inches high x 3 1/2 inch wide
Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, page 616 for illustration of one in series. (NY7982)
Price: $350
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Price: $500
A Set of Six Rare & Early Piero Fornasetti Cortili Porcelain Plates, 1-6, Circa 1950-59. The striking plates depict various courtyard scenes. Diameter: 10Âź inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Edited by Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 617, #170.. (NY(NY7989)
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Price: $4250
(NY7913)
Price: $750
( NY7939)
Price: $750
Three Piero Fornasetti Biscotti Plates, Trompe l'oeil Cookies on a Plate, 1950's-1960's. Diameter: 9 1/2 inches Reference: Fornasetti: The Complete Universe, Barnaba Fornasetti, Page 609, #141 for three examples from set.
(NY8009)
Price: $400
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A Set of Three Square Piero Fornasetti Malachite Plates with Gilt Decoration, Stoviglie Pattern, 1950's. Diameter: 7 inches square (NY7831A)
Price: $750
A Set of Eight Piero Fornasetti Malachite Plates with Gilt Decoration, Stoviglie Pattern, 1950's. Diameter: 8 1/2 inches (NY7831B)
Price: $2500
A Set of Seven Large Piero Fornasetti Malachite Plates with Gilt Decoration Stoviglie Pattern, 1950's. Diameter: 10 1/4 inches (NY7831E)
Price: $3000
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