Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons but it remains in good

but it remains in good condition with many years of use still in it

I can’t imagine how many hours this fantastic box and ten plates might have taken to create (I believe c

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

There is one area on the interior where the bark has come away from the wood

with the main frame a sort of mellowed oxblood and the decorative frame a very mellow gold

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons but it remains in goodIn the 1960s, Fornasetti produced a series called Le Arpie Gentili (the genteel harpy) featuring the heads of famous Italian Opera singers on the bodies of song birds in cages a clever take on the mythological half woman, half bird personification of a storm wind. There seems to have been a set of eight plates produced with single "harpies" but this oval plate with a pair of them seems much rarer (I found just two out there anywhere like this one,