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Large Italian Stoneware Centerpiece by Guido Gambone

Description
An impressive and large square stoneware platter by Guido Gambon, Italy, circa 1950s. Beautifully glazed in white a lava-like textured surface and decorated with black geometrical patterns, abstract and mysterious, invoking a modern aesthetic. The exterior rim of the platter was glazed in a robin egg blue with an intentional bubbled rough texture, rendering this piece a unique and bespoken appearance. Marked on the bottom.
Guido Gambone (1909-1969) was an Italian ceramic artist with a workshop in Florence Italy. The artistic stoneware pieces. he designed and made had a signature style with its thick, colorful, lava-like glazes. Intrigued with ceramics as a creative medium at an early age, Guido Gambone was one of the best known leaders of the Italian midcentury modernist ceramics movement.