Bath, Somerset
Details
- Dimensions
- 5.25ʺW × 6.25ʺD × 1.25ʺH
- Brand
- Lino Sabattini
- Period
- 1970s
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Glass
- Silverplate
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Silver
- Condition Notes
- Excellent vintage condition Excellent vintage condition less
- Description
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A very rare opportunity to purchase a set six boxed seafood / oyster / scallop dishes, each contained in their …
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A very rare opportunity to purchase a set six boxed seafood / oyster / scallop dishes, each contained in their original packaging and boxes; they look to have been unused.
Dating to c.1970, they are made of silver plate and each marked on the underside "Sabattini Italy" and each retains their original frosted glass liner.
A magnificent set, each measuring 6 1/4" x 5 1/4 x 1 1/4".
Lino Sabattini was the preeminent figure in modern Italian silver and metalware design. His expansive and diverse body of work is marked by its strength and boldness, whether in dynamic forms that suggest the thrust and power of Italian Futurist art and design or light and curvaceous biomorphic serveware and decorative objects.
Sabattini was largely self-taught as a designer. Born in the northern Italian town of Correggio, he learned metalsmithing techniques while working in the studio of a maker of brass tableware. He also served as an apprentice of sorts to the expatriate German ceramist Roland Hettner, who taught Sabattini about fluidity of form and showed him how shapes derive from the behavior of materials.
At age 30, Sabattini opened a studio in Milan, and his work quickly came to the attention of Gio Ponti, who decided to publish it in Domus, the Italian design legend's influential design and architecture magazine. Ponti also arranged for Sabattini’s creations to be included in a 1956 exhibition of contemporary Italian design in Paris. The principals of Christofle, the revered French silverware maker, were so impressed that they hired the young designer as the firm’s artistic director, a post he held until 1963. Sabattini, who would also go on to design ceramic wares for Rosenthal, returned home to open Argenteria Sabattini in Bregnano, a company still in business today. less
Bath, Somerset
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