Aldo Londi for Bitossi Quadrato Ceramic Lidded Box, Italy

Spectacular Aldo Londi for Bitossi 'Quadrato' ceramic lidded box. The patterned lid consists of orange, yellow, and green glazed rectangles over matte black earthenware. The box exterior and interior are glazed yellow with its red clay edges visible. There is a beautiful crackelure at interior and you can see the brushstrokes from original glazing. Bottom is marked 7529 Italy. Absolutely spectacular collector's piece. 
 
 
BITOSSI:  The Italian ceramics company was founded in 1921 in Florence, Italy by Guido Bitossi. Bitossi ancestors had been kiln workers, sculptors, painters and potters in Montelupo Fiorentino, near Florence, since the 1530s. In 1946, Aldo Londi joined the Cav. G. Bitossi & Figli factory (Bitossi Ceramiche), a happy association that would see him as a protagonist for more than fifty years, first as artistic director, then as a tireless collaborator. Merging tradition and contemporaneity to create a modern product, Bitossi came  to represent the finest in excellence of Italian ceramic manufacturing in the world, eventually collaborating with artists and design icons such as Ettore Sottsass, Max Lamb, Pierre Marie Agin, and Bethan Laura Wood. 
 
 
DIMENSIONS:  2.25 H x  9 L x 4 W inches
 
CONDITION: In original vintage condition, with wear commensurate of age and use. No flaws noted. 
 
 
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