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Vintage 1979 Renzo Faggioli Studio Art Pottery Vase or Carafe, 9 3/8” Tall, Very Good Condition

This listing is for an early signed and dated Renzo Faggioli studio art pottery vase.  Standing approximately 9 3/8” tall on a 5” diameter base, the expertly crafted pottery vessel has a diameter of about 6 ¼” at its widest point.  The mouth opening has a diameter of 4 ½” and spreads to 4 ¾” with the pouring spout.  Finished in a beautiful gloss, this vintage American studio pottery carafe or vase is in very good condition with no chips, no cracks, and no post-studio damage although light crazing can be seen.  Weighing nearly 2 pounds, this substantial and significant piece of studio art pottery has a liquid capacity of about 56 ounces.  The vintage Renzo vase has tested free of lead.  Signed ‘Renzo 79’ on the underside, this stoneware vase was part of the Ackerman Family Collection until recently sold at auction.  Created less than a decade after his arrival in the United States, this rare early example of Renzo Faggioli's work is an important piece of American studio art pottery.  An outstanding addition to any collection!

The master potter Renzo Faggioli recently celebrated his 81^st birthday and is active as a professor and potter at Moravian College and The Baum School of Art.

From Waller-Yoblonsky Fine Art Blog…

Renzo Faggioli, (b.1940) Master Ceramic Artist

Master craftsman, Faggioli has been a fixture of the Lehigh Pennsylvania area since his arrival from Italy. He has instructed ceramics just down the street from the Allentown Art Museum at the Baum School of Art, at the Moravian College as the Ceramist-in Residence in Bethlehem, and served as a guest instructor at the Penn Lehigh Campus.  There is an endless list of students and protégés that sing his praises.

Faggioli started his own higher education at the Scuola State Ceramica della Robbia in Florence, Italy, and he then did his advanced studies at Alfred University and Carnegie-Mellon University. For those of you who know ceramics, there is nothing finer that studying at Alfred.

Faggioli’s work has been shown at many major exhibitions throughout the Eastern U.S. and Europe. His work has been featured in solo shows at Allentown Art Museum, Baum School of Art, Holland Art House Gallery in West Chester, and the former Hoopla Gallery in Bethlehem. In April, 2004, he received the Allentown Arts Ovation Award for the Visual Arts. Additionally, he represented the U.S. in the Eighth Biennale International de Ceramique d’Art Vallauris in France.

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The studio pottery pieces sold by The Other Man's Store which may be used for food or drink are individually tested for lead and the results are shown in the listings.  Vintage pieces often contain lead.  Please make sure all studio pottery pieces, old or new, used for food or drink are tested for lead!  According to the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)...  "Today many potters of traditional or 'folk' pottery have switched to non-lead glazes, but they may still be using old kilns that were once used for firing lead-containing glazes, unintentionally contaminating the 'lead free' pottery with lead residues that remain in the kiln from past usage.  Because the lead may not fuse into the non-lead glaze, it may contaminate food when the pottery is used with food."  Be Safe!

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