{"product_id":"1950s-ars-artigiana-deruta-italian-animal-motif-handled-pottery-bowl","title":"1950s ARS Artigiana Deruta Italian Animal Motif Handled Pottery Bowl","description":"\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eA wonderfully characterful mid-century Italian art pottery bowl by ARS Artigiana of Deruta, decorated with an expressive collection of naïve animal and botanical motifs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eThe shallow freeform bowl features a warm taupe ground densely worked with raised white slip decoration, creating an almost lace-like textured surface. Hand-painted amongst the pattern are a wonderfully stylised giraffe, bird or cockerel, snail, flowers and foliage, picked out in muted red, yellow, blue, green and orange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eA turquoise glaze defines the softly scalloped edge and two large sculptural loop handles, giving the piece a particularly distinctive silhouette. The reverse is finished in a mottled turquoise glaze and bears the hand-painted maker's mark “ARS Artigiana, Deruta, Italy”, together with the number 1395, believed to be a pattern or form reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"isSelectedEnd\"\u003eMade in Deruta, Umbria — one of Italy's historic centres of ceramic production — the piece combines traditional Italian pottery techniques with the playful, graphic aesthetic associated with post-war decorative ceramics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn unusual and highly decorative piece of Italian mid-century pottery that works equally well displayed as an object in its own right or used as a shallow bowl.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Odloft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53803155128667,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/1330\/4155\/files\/image_d5b8e92b-f54b-4648-9e9e-a215df001c05.png?v=1786962736","url":"https:\/\/odloft.com\/products\/1950s-ars-artigiana-deruta-italian-animal-motif-handled-pottery-bowl","provider":"Odloft","version":"1.0","type":"link"}