Large Handmade 1960s Alvino Bagni Ashtray Bowl Italian Pottery Russian River and cotton bordered with heavy

and cotton bordered with heavy threading of blue and pink threads

working with pen and brush on top of the still wet white lead

so different from the central part with the high altar

Handle height 4 inches

Large Handmade 1960s Alvino Bagni Ashtray Bowl Italian Pottery Russian River and cotton bordered with heavyALVINO BAGNI (19192009) was born in 1919 in the quiet Tuscan hamlet of Lastra a Signa in the environs of Florence. His boyhood and adolescence were spent without his father, who, as a communist, had been exiled under Italian fascism. The young Bagni took an early interest in pottery, a regionally important industry. He studied the basics of drawing and clay modeling under the tutelage of local sculptor Torello Santini (18751946) and, with his