Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish labrado brown bear

brown bear

Each side measures 4 1/2" w x 2 3/8" t x 5/8" d

and have not found another out there like it

A lovely little watercolor

6" tall and long

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish labrado brown bearIn 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,