Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons and bands of pattern around

and bands of pattern around neck and base

and at the Donahue / Sosinski in 2002 and 2002

an Oblate missionary

The reverse side is blank

but it remains in good condition with many years of use still in it

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons and bands of pattern aroundIn 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,