Nils Thorsson Ashtrays

Midcentury Vallauris Bowl or Ashtray, Glazed Ceramic Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in amber, white and brown colors. Manufactured by Vallaur...

Danish mid-century Baca Faience plate by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen Small mid-century plate from the Baca series by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen. This highly detail...

Danish Mid-Century Baca Faience plates set by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen This set of four Mid-Century Modern, highly detailed ceramic/faien...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue, Italy, 1950s-1960s. Marked Italy at the back. Measures: 15 cm W x 15 cm D x 3 cm H ( 5,90 in W x5,90 in D x 1,18 in H ) About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...

Small 'Rimini blu', blue glazed terracotta ceramic squared ashtray. Design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Italy, 1950s-1960s. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geomet...

Footed bowl by Danish designer Nills Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen, circa 1930s.

Original and signed Mid-Century ashtray in a fantastic vibrant blue glazed ceramic (Rimini Blu). This amazing and rare piece is signed on the bottom and was designed by Flavia Monte...

French mid-century Vallauris ashtray / bowl in multicolor glazed ceramic. Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in yellow, amber, white and brown colors. Manufactured by Vallaur...

Beautiful and large round midcentury ashtray in blue glazed ceramic (Rimini Blu). This amazing piece was designed by Aldo Londi and produced by Bitossi in Italy during 1960s. Thi...

French mid-century Vallauris ashtray / bowl in multicolor glazed ceramic. Beautiful fat lava glazed ceramic ashtray in orange, amber, white and brown colors. Manufactured by Vallaur...

Royal Copenhagen Ceramic Lidded Box. Nice original condition with no damage or repairs.

ROYAL COPENHAGEN - Ellen Malmer/designer - Nils Thorsson/shape designer - Mid Century Modern - Baca series - Aluminia faience vase number 635/3121 - signed on the base ROYAL COPENHAG...