Large Handmade 1960s Alvino Bagni Ashtray Bowl Italian Pottery Russian River working with pen and brush

working with pen and brush on top of the still wet white lead

He’s best known for his 1950s-era collection Rimini Blu (1955-1965)

Gainey Ceramics is also committed to sustainability and environmentally responsible practices

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Large Handmade 1960s Alvino Bagni Ashtray Bowl Italian Pottery Russian River working with pen and brushALVINO BAGNI (19192009) was born in 1919 in the quiet Tuscan hamlet of Lastra a Signa in the environs of Florence. His boyhood and adolescence were spent without his father, who, as a communist, had been exiled under Italian fascism. The young Bagni took an early interest in pottery, a regionally important industry. He studied the basics of drawing and clay modeling under the tutelage of local sculptor Torello Santini (18751946) and, with his