A CHARGER, 1950s

Details

SALVATORE MELI (1929-2011)
A CHARGER, 1950s
painted earthenware
9 ½ in. (24 cm.) high; 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide; 11 ¾ in. (30 cm.) deep
signed Meli Roma

Literature

Related design illustrated:
M. Eidelberg, (ed.), What Modern Was, Design 1935-1965, New York, 1991, p. 237.

Special notice

Artist's Resale Right ("Droit de Suite"). Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006 apply to this lot, the buyer agrees to pay us an amount equal to the resale royalty provided for in those Regulations, and we undertake to the buyer to pay such amount to the artist's collection agent.

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Lot Essay

Ceramics was one of the Italian artisanal industries that flourished in the post-war years. Sicilian-born, and active in Rome, the work of Salvatore Meli drew from the richness and dignity of Etruscan and Greek pottery, establishing a style that was distinct from his contemporaries. However, the zoomorphic forms, stylised figurative elements, and calligraphic surface establish an alignment with modern European painting.

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