Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish labrado brown bear

brown bear

or forever

differently shaped mountains

but this set does have more than its share of cylinders and hexagonal prisms

6" tall and long

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish labrado brown bearIn the 1960s, Fornasetti produced a series called Le Arpie Gentili (the genteel harpy) featuring the heads of famous Italian Opera singers on the bodies of song birds in cages a clever take on the mythological half woman, half bird personification of a storm wind. There seems to have been a set of eight plates produced with single "harpies" but this oval plate with a pair of them seems much rarer (I found just two out there anywhere like this one,