Aldo Londi Art inspiration.
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Aldo Londi (AL) (1911-2003) was an exceptionally skilled Art Potter Designer and Art Potter producing ceramic's from 1922 to? 1976 where he retired? He is also said to be working freelance, so I assume he continued making clay art's after retirering from Bitossi as headdesigner?
Aldo Londi both worked for the Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's (FF) from 1911 up to Second Worldwar, first as claymaker and after a short time as dayly designer under FF Brother's as they were the head designer's and Bitossi from 1946-1976 as head designer;) in the city of Montelupo, Fiorentino, Italy.
The companies are located on the same street with approx. 500 meters distance on the road Via Antonio Gramsci, 50056 Montelupo, Fiorentino FI, Italy.
He came dayly until he died at the Bitossi Ceramiche to greet and see the day's production's.
Below you find screenprint's only and pictures of my own including my logo eye as watermark, so I match copyright's;)
I have asked Bitossi Ceramiche for permission - provel of this page and I have left their answer's here, as I got them;)
First you find a comment on their facebook page shown here as first screenprint. Thank's very much;)
Then I have recieved comment's in mail's.. Thank's for the answer's, I need that, because I write out of passion for Aldo Londi Art Creation's and to get the grip of his way of handsigning ITALY?;)
I make clear, that all the link's to Bitossi Ceramiche are correct.
I will make clear, when I think, can see, assume or have found text/pictures/screenprint's on the internet.
And then the copyright's are ok done here regarding to Bitossi;)
Because I am a creative person and educated Art Teacher, I also need to explain the "Jam" or "to be totally in Flow as artist".
The inspiration coming out of that feeling is NOT copying BUT pure inspiration to get high spirit to fly high as artist and get inspired as artist's together. It can easily be done without drug's as used a lot by young people nowaday's. You can also get high of pure interest and life inspiration - It is possible;)
I think that Aldo Londi also made friend's among Clay Artist's around The World before working for Bitossi, while working for FF Brother's from 1922-up to 2. World War.
It is really like playing music, you stick together and jam in a cultural period and make alike thought's and product's and you did them in the spirit of the jam together or after getting the same mood of the experienced jam;) That's actually how it is.
Maby Aldo Londi also jammed clay with alike clay genious people around the world and especially in Sweden and Denmark I assume, because I have found other describing that Aldo Londi was especially inspired by Scandinavia and you find most of his wonderful art clay in Sweden and Denmark and of cause in Italy as handsigned by AL on his design's;)
I will here try to get the grip of Aldo Londi creation's: how can you nearly for sure see, if it is really created (produced and/or designed and/or handsigned) by Aldo Londi?
It is also essential to get the grip of: in what period and what kind of signatur's has Bitossi used and still uses on their Art Clay Creation's?
I have bought the book Aldo Londi Ceramist Biography by his son Luca Londi recieved 25.07.24 and updated all the information here, to match this book written by his son referring to exact page number's from the book. I think, I then only need to ask Bitossi about, when they exactly used stamp ITALY and label's.
Sgraffito & Dot's.
Aldo Londi inspiration Sgraffito and dot's by Ugo Zaccagnini (UZ),
Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's (FF) and later as head designer for Bitossi.
Aldo Londi was inspired by a lot of designer's and creator's, but I have chosen to fokus on UZ and FF, because I think that they also were outstanding and can find the documentation for his inspiration. Really, I think, his best friend Bruno Bagnoli working at FF Brother's was the best local inspirator jamming clay together. Bruno was three year's younger, but I recond that they met while both working for FF Brother's. So AL jammed artistically Clay Art's together with Bruno Bagnoli (regarding to AL's son Luca Londi) going to exebition's in Europe, talking about the Art issues, construction's, color's, surface's of art clay, etc. Really inspirering, because the join'r are on the same art understanding level of art spirit, able to accept your thought's, at the same time understanding art issues and disagree with you;) This argumentation platform is so inspirering;) So do equal's for joining exibition's, then you get high spirit together without drug's;)
No matter, where you are, get equal's to join exibition's;) The Passione, then comes alive, out of the spirit together, the jamming art together, do it;)
The Sgraffito Jar with Lit below I think is done by Ugo Zaccagnini earlier than his business together with his children, so from 1912 t0 1928. In that period his own business in Piazza
Pier Vettori was tiny and not earning a lot of money. I recond that Ugo Zaccagnini did work as freelance before that, because he is said to be working as freelance twice before and after working together with Richard Ginori in Sesto Fiorentino.
After 1928 the business Zaccagnini in Piazza Pier Vettori grow's, because of working together with Walt Disney, where they could symbolize the Disney figures as Zaccagnini best liked. It is understandable that ALwas inspired by U.Z. (1868-1937). Unfortunately the spirit of Art's get's lost here somewhere, so they, Zaccagnini's, (grand children) close down. during 70' - 80'ties economic crises in Europe as everybody had to fight against economic derude...
The Sgraffiito at it's best is done from 1920'ties to 1930'ties, I think, as the jar with lit below, because they made the wonderful pattern's by hand scratching away the Fiorentino clay to make air and level differences between the pattern's by hand.
Ugo Zaccagnini's hand signature here include a Z as stroke down from the Y, so he was also experimenting with his handsignature, if it is UZ doing this jar with lit. But the way A is signed show's it is maby not UZ? However, the sgraffito on the jar is wonderful done and almost look's like jade on the greenish glaze part's.
Then you find a vase in white for sure done by Ugo Zaccagnini with gold on white glaze including dot's.
I think that his vase with dot's on it by UZ could show that Aldo Londi got the "jam" from Ugo Zaccagnini to do dot's later, as Ugo died in 1937 and Aldo Londi first started at Bitossi in 1946 as head designer, where the dot's became predominantly on his Art Clay Creation's.
On UZ vase you also find the symbol of the wheel or globe, as time turning in a year shown by the sun possition's and not as a flat line in time space ongoing;) Old cultures are believing that, sun turning period's ongoing or as the globe or universe...
Then you find a rooster and hen in white glazed clay with gold and black as pattern's handpainted onto them.
The rooster and hen are only handsigned with A 20, A 21, where the A is signed more round than flat on the top;) Normally there should be a Z with a wave through the Z, but here there is only the left's over from mark's?
The number 2 is not written, as AL would do it, but as UZ did 2 with a round long stroke on the top. You can see that the 2 in 20 is done longer than in the first stroke...
I think the rooster and hen are done by Zaccagnini's, Ugo Zaccagnini in business together with his children from 1928, because they are done on the same form as different colored rooster and hen, that for sure are Zaccagnini creation's. I think mine are the most beautiful colored one's, because they are only done in white, black and real gold. I think they are the only one's done that way, because there are no other number's....
His children closed down the Zaccagnini's business in 1964. His son Urbano continued up to 2000.
You find alike rooster's and hen's on the internet, if you search on rooster and hen Ugo Zaccagnini in nearly every color.
UZ also did two number's as AL later did it, number out of number, on Montetupo, Fiorentino, Italy area clay, as you can see the burned clay color on the bottom's of the rooster and hen. There are also UZ creation's, where there are three number's written on the bottom - number/number/number...
These rooster and hen are outstanding done, wow, so it is actually possible, I think, that Aldo Londi was inspired by Ugo Zaccagnini.
I think that UZ also was a Clay Art Genius as Aldo Londi was it, but AL was the best, because AL also worked with creating uneven surface's using sgraffito emprinted symbol's into the clay as AL Art clay design's.
You can then compare Ugo Zaccagnini hand signature below - screenprint found on the internet on a lamp with the rooster and hen.
Then it is clear, that my rooster and hen also are done by Zaccagnini's, where as the A. 21 exactly match Ugo Zaccagnini's way of handwriting these;)
After you find Ugo Zaccagnini or Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's signing a wonderful rooster plate handpainted with lot's of color's I think, where the A is signed flat on the top, so I actually think this rooster plate is done by UZ and not FF, but the two FF are missing? It does not have any number's so there is probably only done one of this plate?;)
Last I think we have a wonderful bowl done by Ugo Zaccagnini before 1928 with Fiorentino Flower's. It is for sure Antique Sgraffito Majolica Faience Art Pottery and really creative sgraffito done by hand, I think. It for sure look's like inspiration for AL and his later serie's doing Fiorentino Flower's also serie "Carta" Fiorentino Flower's;)
You see Bitossi Ceramiche homepage telling about Aldo Londi above.
Aldo Londi worked as potter at Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's 1922-1940ish, where he start's working at Bitossi Ceramiche 1946.
Aldo Londi, at the age of 11, in 1922, is looking for work as a potter at the Ceramiche Fratelli Fanciulacci brother's (FF) (1862-1988 changed factoryname Fornace Bardi Capraia to Ceramiche Artistiche F.lli Fanciullacci), after finishing primary school (described by Luca Londi). He work's here until he was captured in Africa during World War II as I found it described on the internet. Exactly 1940 he went into war in Africa written by Luca Londi page 37. But also found in his son's book that Aldo Londi joined army to train 1932-36 and returned to work with FF Brother's.
The FF brother's have stated that they could quickly see, that this young boy had talent beyond the ordinary as I found it described on the internet.
The Fratelli Fanciulacci brother's are known for beautiful rustic oriental/roman/greek traditional and non-traditional in many styles also sold all over The World as I found it on the link above.
I think and can see it, when you look at handsigned TTA LY by Aldo Londi creation's for Bitossi, you find simmilar creation's and pattern's in FF creation's and Luca Londi agrees on beeing working as more than potter for the FF's on page 27-28.
Quite some FF creation's are also handsigned TTA LY as I tell about below is for sure Aldo Londi way of handsigning Italy.
Aldo Londi was trained from and has collaborated with the FF Brother's as a potter at least 23 Years and I am sure they allowed him to do his own design's still handsigning with FF mark, but with his own way of signing ITA LY together with FF mark or FL and only one number above the TTA LY handsigned. Luca Londi writes on page 27-28, that AL got his own potter's to work with AL creation's.
At the same time, Aldo Londi was inspired by Ugo Zaccagnini (UZ), I think and also have read somewhere on the internet. His son, Luca Londi, say's in his book about his father, that Aldo Londi best friend went to local Academy, not his father Aldo Londi. So actually Aldo Londi did maby learn from his best friend,
I read it was Bruno Bagnoli joining Local Academy, maby taught by Ugo Zaccagnini as he was working as freelance in that period to make his new business grow. So in that perspective AL created for FF Brother's. I have also found, that AL and his best friend Bruno Bagnoli both worked for FF Brother's jamming Art Clay together every day at FF Brother's as they also joined exebition's together described by Luca Londi in his book;)
Hereby Aldo Londi also was autodidact Artist making wonderful Art Clay for us.
Below there is first a screenprint showing a few of Zaccagnini's and FF's production's.
I think the way Ugo Zaccagnini and FF Brother's handsigned fore sure inspired Aldo Londi's handsigning later. See the simmilarity on screenprint's below.
I can see that U.Z. handsigned ITALY with visible I without a dot, then T, then a A without visible connection on the top here, but actually connected as a line, so the A look's flat on the top of the A (wide A) and equal L and Y, where each letter stand's on it's own;). I can also see that it look's very simmilar to how Aldo Londi handsigned Italy as TTA LY. Look for more further below....
Below you find a wonderful early vase by Ugo Zaccagnini & his handsigning with a wide brush! That I would love to affort to buy at Modern Redux US, where the umbra brownish Montelupo area clay look's like leather, because it is painted darker umbra. I think both this vase and UZ production's af chenise schulptures inspired AL to do Rimini Blue & Umbra, though AL produced all his creation's with white glaze underneath the Rimini Blue and other color's to overcome the dark effect of the umbra onto Montelupo clay, I think.
And precisely this show's that AL was really into study how to make his creation's both look structured on the surface, but also know how to make the color's on the clay shine.
I think fore sure that Aldo Londi was inspired to do both blueish glaze combined with umbra colored clay and the Asian inspired figures by Ugo Zaccagnini and they both could have joined local Studio's to jam clay together. The vase below say's ALVE and she was UZ daughter. I think the ALVE is referring to her, so this vase can be done for her or by her as the family business Zaccagnini was growing.
Last there is Aldo Londi Cube serie "Seviglia" orange vase with beautiful Fiorentino Flower's on it and dot's for sure designed by Aldo Londi regarding to Bitossi in the video from their Museum.
The handsignature on this orange Seviglia vase for sure look's like Ugo Zaccagnini handsigning ITA LY, but it is not, it is AL for Bitossi.
It is only signed B/105 and therfore I think, there is only this one of it's kind? Here you find the A done more round on the top, but really simmilar to the rooster & hen or rooster plate signature, if you also look at the 2, it is exactly written as Aldo Londi would do 2;)
I think these pieces show, that Aldo Londi did alike handsignature as UZ and FF before 1940 and for Bitossi from 1946-1976.
I think, that Aldo Londi was given the knowledge of Art Symbol's from his best friend joining Art School for Clay regarding to his son Luca Londi to know how to express them, using all of them later as Art Creator and Head designer for Bitossi.
I also recond that Aldo Londi would have been greatful for that too, because he was deeply into feeling's.
Aldo Londi had for sure the Art Clay "Jam" and "Flow" to get high spirit inside of him.
Below I have found some of the information about The Fratelli brother's on this link.
The company was founded in Fiorentino 1862 as Fanciulacci Ceramiche and they moved to Montelupo around 1911 for better distribution and became well established and popular.
Actually this text say's that FF have produced since 17oo's under a different name.
FF brother's also travelled to sell their art clay creation's worldwide as UZ and AL did it later working for Bitossi and also after working as potter and creator, where he was able to design under the name of FF' Brother's.
FF' creation's have only one number for each creation, so you find how many creation's they did by the number painted onto the bottom of the art creation including handwritten ITALY in different way's, I think.
In 1966 their factory was flooded very badly, nearly all their mould's were destroyed and it took a year to produce again. Somebody actually helped them out, but world demand fell and FF brother's closed all activity in 1988.
I recond that Aldo Londi as head designer for Bitossi first working for FF Brother's for 23 Year's has tried to do everything possible to help FF Brother's after 1966? I think, that you can easy imagine so, because a lot of the mould's destroyed in 1966 was created by Aldo Londi too. That I think, because the FF Brother's around 1922 stated, that AL had exstraordinary skill's as potter working for them and his son Luca Londi confirm's it.
You also find it described in the link's above, that FF Brother's expanded, but actually I think they moved their factory from Capraia near the local river in Montelupo to about 500 meter's from Bitossi, where you now find it as the Ceramic Museum of Montelupo.
The FF Brother's factory in Montelupo stood empty from 1988 until it was sold to the Municipality of Montelupo in 2004 and restored to the current Ceramics Museum of Montelupo Fiorentino.
Aldo Londi and Bitossi Ceramiche 1946-2003.
I have read in Luca Londi's book page 51 that Aldo Londi met Marcello Bitossi, because he was the fianc'e of AL*s sister Anna. Returning from captivity during the Second World War in Africa, he, after meeting Marcello, start's officially working at the company Bitossi in 1946 as a potter, because Marcello wanted him too. Actually Luca Londi tell's it is officially first January the 20. 1947, page 57.
After a short time, he was employed as Artistic Head Designer together with other designer's at Bitossi and subsequently as a permanent partner.
https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/en.
Aldo Londi as head designer and characteristic's of the ceramic's.
Aldo Londi expressed stories through ceramic's about emotion's and intuition's and lived dedicated to Art his whole life. He mixed tradition's with contemporary art. Aldo Londi is
best known for the main serie "Rimini Blue" designed from 1959, where serie Rimini Blue
continues to sell well all over the world.
He has produced in many color's, pattern's and shapes, in smooth and mostly rustic clay and sometimes making different kind's of creating Art Clay Design's.
You also find them by knowing how he handsigned TTA LY;)
Or is it really a potter working at Bitossi way of handsigning at Aldo Londi designed mould's?
Actually I think not, but the handsignature ITA LY must have the space between A and L to be made at Bitossi and designed by Aldo Londi.
Who know's, they, Bitossi, are keeping it as a secret...
https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/collections/aldo-londi-rimini-blu.
The characteristic of Aldo Londi artistic ceramic craft is that it is eye-catching, it seem's harmonious in the form's and you want to touch it, I think;)
I think that you can sense the cultural historical heritage Aldo Londi has also been inspired by and expressed in his ceramic work's of art, which are timeless and continuously inspire worldwide.
During all his travel's for Bitossi and sales of his creation's in residential building's, etc. worldwide Aldo Londi also was inspired by local potter's and cultures, I think, as an Art Teacher and also as an Creative Artist, I know the feeling's here jamming or getting high spirit together with other artist's;). His son Luca Londi also writes about his ongoing creativity;)
Luca Londi writes on page 59-63 that AL made ceramic's especially for US after Second World War.....but as industrial creation's matching US demand's, when they were visiting AL in Montelupo.
Also Aldo Londi has been a lot in Scandinavia, where he was mostly in Sweden and Denmark.
Below you find the mainframe serie "Rimini blue" and subserie "Spagnoli" handsigned B105/ and stamped ITALY. So here we have a vase that is handsigned for Bitossi done as the 105 production, I think;)
As it does not say anything after the / line, I recond that this piece should really had stayed at Bitossi, Montelupo, Italy, because they normally use two number's.
I have repaired this beautiful A.L. vintage vase on the vase top. I rather like this shape than A.L. Ball, because it is incorrect due to the geometric form's and Math's;)
I think and assume here, as it is possible for us all to do so, neverthless what Univercity people are shaped or formed as a formation to think about exactly that;)
 Aldo Londi Rimini Blue serie Spagnolo beautiful vase.Aldo Londi handsigning B105/ and ITALY stamped bought via Napoli seller, Italy 2024;) When I look at these patterns it makes me think of Alhambra at Granada and hear Loreena McKennitt in "Nights from the Alhambra";) Kanobi® Jewelry |
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Aldo Londi ceramic color's and structures I can see looking on the internet.
Because I am educated as an Art Teacher, I can mix exactly the same color's by viewing the color's;)
He used predominantly natural color's such as umbra (as the Montelupo clay is nature colored red umbra toned with white and when burned it look's like light umbra, as I can see it looking at the burned clay;)
Sometimes he used a bit of sienna and seldom ochre, along with primary color's, clear blue toned with a bit of yellow, red toned with a bit of yellow, umbre toned with a bit of ochre and white, umbre toned with a bit of sienna, matte or glossy black often on clay without stones in it to color and structure the clay.
All ceramic's are handmade, as I know it, reading on Bitossi ceramiche homepage and on the internet, done in clay from the local river, mostly mixed with small pieces of stones, so that the clay seem's rustic. But Aldo Londi has also produced ceramic's without stones in the Montelupo clay having the color of almost light umbra mixed with a tiny bit of cienne and sunyellow lightened with white, as I have creation's without any tiny stones in them;)
I am sure that Aldo Londi first created his design, then made a handmade form of his designed schulpture (mould) in clay and then used different techniques to finish his sculptures, such as sgraffito or stamping into it, ex. when doing vases, lamp's, ashtray's, bowl's, relief's, bust's, etc., as you can find them on the internet.
When it, both the clay and glaze, is burned on very hight temperature, or actually burned to hot, I think you get the LAVA structure showing glaze burned to hot with layer's flowting together and lava color of the umbra overheated clay. Then you get the beautiful serie LAVA, also called Chinese Glaze Rimini Blue;) I think of it done so, because I am an Art teacher. But it could actually also have been done using acid's, as he used to do his ancient fish's, as you can se in the video from Bitossi Museum.
AL used LAVA glaze for some of his wonderful figures done as UZ did them, though AL used LAVA structure onto them burning them to hot I believe;)
See LAVA structure on the top photo as background for the Rimini Blue Geometric Symbol Pattern's or below.
I think as the name say's, that Aldo Londi went to Rimini and was taken by the clear blue greenish color's of the water and the waves, so that these color's became essential to his further work. The serie called RIMINI BLUE is the main frame for nearly all his work doing pattern's as symbol's into the Montelupo clay making it timeless and beautiful.
The mainframe "Rimini blue" comes in all sort's of pattern's as symbol's for eternity, flower's, circles as The Whole, etc. and it can also be in other color's than Rimini blue. Then it is not Rimini blue, right?, but a different color, ex. Rimini Red, Black, Green, Mustard Brownish as some call it or as I would call it Umbra toned with ochre or olive colored. Olives and their leaves are the symbol's of...;)
Not all production's have a serie name?, but you find the clues looking Rimini blue by Aldo Londi up;)
 Aldo Londi LAVA structure.Rimini blue water;) Early lamp handsigned L 4/35 TTA LY called Lava or Chinese glaze Aldo Londi for Bitossi;) Definition Blueish Blue - truth, intellect, revelation, wisdom, loyalty, faithfulness, constancy, magnanimity, prudence, piety, peace, etc. Kanobi® Jewelry |  AL Rimini blue subserie Trifoglio.Kanobi® Jewelry |  WOW;) Lava structure boiled Umbra Clay Montelupo and White & Rimini Blue glazeRimini blue water;) Early lamp handsigned L 4/35 TTA LY called Lava or Chinese glaze Aldo Londi for Bitossi;) Definition Blueish Blue - truth, intellect, revelation, wisdom, loyalty, faithfulness, constancy, magnanimity, prudence, piety, peace, etc. It's the 4 / production of 35 alike this;) Kanobi® Jewelry |
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As I said, I think and assume and can se on the internet that first Aldo Londi produced a new creation of the Montelupo clay, which was left to dry until it was ready to work with pattern's.
It was then glazed in layer's with first white, then colored glaze and clear glaze on top. I assume that the glaze could be from Murano, because they are also outstanding glassartmaker's and sell their seed's of glassmix;)
I do not know it for sure, but Luca Londi tell's about Aldo Londi Serie Frittes on the page 78, where Aldo Londi experimented with combining Montelupo clay with glass, so the glaze also looked cracked and glass does that when cooled to quickly.
As I can see it, this process makes the glaze color's appear uneven and transparent clear and beautiful structured by the pattern's and also most often by the tiny stones used in the clay.
Then he made a mould of his creation to do more for us;)
As I can see it, not all creation's have white as the basic color.
Most often red glaze has black as the bottom glaze and some creation's are without a base color as my jar above, so the beautiful light umbral clay form's the base color under the top glaze layer's. My jar is glazed umbra with a bit of yellow directly onto the Montelupo clay;). But the Rimini Blue subserie Trifoglio area is glazed white as the basic color, as I can see it.
I think the most beautiful pieces are the one's, where the glaze look's as if the glass glaze has boiled, heather on to hot degrees, so the surface is really rough and with holes in the glaze. wow look above;)
I rather like to think of it as burned glass glaze or heated too hot, so it look's like the surface of the moon and not only LAVA;) I really like this structure done by Aldo Londi, propably by a mistake, busy experimenting or playing with material's in the time where ceramist's were experimenting with clay and glaze to make it all look like LAVA;)
I think all Aldo Londi's creation's are beautiful Art Sculptures in themselves showing Mother Earth of Nature in the most fantastic way, but Bitossi has chosen to show the simple beautiful ones on an architecture page.
https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/collections/aldo-londi-arkitectura. https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/en/pages/storia.
 Bitossi Pattern Storie screenprint..Kanobi® Jewelry |
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Design model's as a templates for reproduction's of Aldo Londi creation's found on Bitossi Ceramiche homepage.
Aldo Londi designed and produced himself together with other ceramist's. Based on Aldo Londi's design's, Aldo Londi for Bitossi has produced mould's for relief's, figures, e.g. so many of Bitossi's product's are manufactured this way.
When it comes to empressed pattern's, Aldo Londi has used and Bitossi still uses pattern stamp's created by Aldo Londi onto handmanufactured and handturned clay production's.
https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/collections/archivio-storico.
 Aldo Londi buy reproductions screenprint.Kanobi® Jewelry |
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Aldo Londi handsignatures for FF Brother's and Bitossi as I have found them on the internet and can see them.
Italian potter's collaborate in cooperatives I think and decide for a given period how to sign Italian ceramic's.
For many year's almost everyone handwrote ITALY though someone also wrote ITALIA eighter using stamp's or handwritten and I have found on the internet that Zaccagnini both had handwritten ITALY and ITALIA and different stamp's.
Aldo Londi signed with TTA LY both for the Fanciulacci Brother's and Bitossi, that I am actually sure of, because you find simmilar handsignature both for FF Brother's and Bitossi handwriting TTA LY with same space between A and L and same look of writing all the letter's as TTA LY;)
Therefore I think, precisely Aldo Londi creation's also must be found in the way Italy is written to be mostly sure it is a Aldo Londi creation you are looking at.
First I have found simmilar ceramic's from Italy, but not designed or handsigned or stamped by Aldo Londi for FF & Bitossi on the internet.
"Studio 4" made simmilar to Bitossi and Aldo Londi color Rrimini Blue with pattern's. They worked in Capraia, Montelupo.
Studio 4 were potter's that used to work at Bitossi and they made simmilar to Bitossi product's, so look for the handsigned mark's! The pattern's, that Studio 4 used were simmilar to Bitossi by Aldo Londi, but not exactly, so also look at the pattern's used, because they are not Aldo Londi designed. It is really easy to see the differences if you know how Aldo Londi pattern's exactly look;)
Also Ceramic Tadinate and Deruta still makes simmilar to Aldo Londi for Bitossi, so do also look for the production's and design differences here. Nuovo Rinascimento also did simmilar in the 70'ties, but they used a darker blueish in different blue from primary color's, so look for too colored blue, then it can also be Nuovo. They did not finish the visible inside of lamp's, e.g. as Bitossi does inspired by Aldo Londi alway's doing clay to perfection as I can see it and have found AL's Art product's on the internet;)
 Aldo Londi HandsignatureThe line over IT is uniq for AL and the round A, space betwwen A and L and Y having a long stroke down to the left;) Kanobi® Jewelry |
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As I have found it on the internet and can see it The Fanciulacci Brother's handsigned as handwritten ITALY with each letter standing on it's own and possibly only one production number first and one or two FF in front of ITALY or behind Italy and a lot product's are done without FF handsigned. They also did only mark's as FF ITALY.
As there were several "brother's", there must have been agreement on how to handsign, if you were not FF brother's and I assume, that each creator could sign Italy their way with FF in front or behind.
There where also several different way's to handsign, when Fratelli Fanciulacci brother's themselves handsigned, because no one sign's totally the same way and for sure not every time you sign. They started as one Fanciulacci before 1862, because familybusiness established 1862, so the Brother's stand's for family business including generation's of art clay maker's and owner's of the Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's factory in Montelupo, Fiorentino, Italy.
There is a similar signature with ITA as described, but then there is air between ITA air LY, so that the letter's A and L become prominent.
These one's signed that way is for sure Aldo Londi handsigning his production's for FF Brother's, I think. See below first row second photo.
On the fourth picture with the red X below you find Aldo Londi way of handsigning Italy as he was working for FF I asume.
Aldo Londi's handwriting TTA LY can also be seen on the last picture on the right side second row, but here it say's Ztaly and that is also described on Bitossi Ceramiche homepage;)
Maby he did also the second last on the bottom row;)
He could also have done the third in the first row from left, because there is used different brushsize to sign here.
If you look on the last photo in first row right below, then it could be Ugo Zaccagnini
handsigning, because he worked twice as freelance in area Fiorentino. But FF brother's also handsigned I T A L Y that kind of way as you see it below.
You also have to look up, what kind of creation's FF' Brother's did and what Aldo Londi later also created for Bitossi. ex. the vase in umbra with white and green colored stripe's below working with the surface of the clay, I think.
Did AL also create simmilar as headdesigner?
Yes, he did so. The serie Seta for sure for Bitossi includes simmilar to FF vase with stripes on it below.
If you look at the internet you find a Seta plate in orange gold and scratched clay away (below).
My blueish sun gold wallplate with LAVA background as spred on to it and sgraffito could also look like done by Al. Regarding to Bitossi is it for sure not done by AL for Bitossi.
Also the vase alike my sun gold wallplate AL, regarding to Bitossi, did not design nor create for them.
We will never know exactly, who really did my wonderful wallplate, but they are for sure handsigned looking like AL did it for FF Brother's, because of one same number 729 handsigned before TTA LY on the two first very simmilar wallplates below (my and a screenprint)
The way the letter's 729 are written and after TTA LY looks like AL way of writing the numbers 7, 2, 9 and Italy over time.
As you can see below, I found simmilar wallplate without gold, and also called number 729 and here we for sure can see, that the way TTA LY is signifikant handsigned Aldo Londi handsigning way, because of the space between A L.
Then these wallplates and vase are done before 1940 for FF Brother's.
Also my wonderful SUN blueish Lava Gold wallplate for sure look as inspiration for Serie "Seta". Maby AL and my wallplate designer jammed art clay together, where as AL came out the jam with serie Seta;)
Below you first find different way's of writing ITALY so it look's like TTA LY sold at the internet to be designed by FF Brother's.
 Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's Mark's screenprint....The brownish cylindrical vase with green and white stripes on sold as FF by Mark Hill, look simmilar to my wallplate below, I think. The last foto with handwritten Ztaly is Aldo Londi for Bitossi from 1946, where he wrote Ztaly or actually Italy with letter's written together as old handwriting way. But he also did Ztaly for FF Brother's before 1940, because of the two FF's visible here, I think;) Kanobi® Jewelry |  My wonderful Sgraffito Blueish LAVA gold AL creation;)It for sure also looks like The Sun or Earth or Fiorentino Flower's and is done with real gold and blueish painted lava structure. So beautiful and it look's also done by a master AL for FF I think. Kanobi® Jewelry |  AL hansigning way as my wallplate goldScreenprints... Here they say Fratelli Fanciulacci, but is then done before 1940 I think and also for sure by designer Aldo Londi for FF Brother's as he was working as for the brother's documented by his son Luca Londi;) Kanobi® Jewelry |  Like my wallplate gold;)Really like my wallplate, not done by AL for Bitossi, but I'm now sure for FF Brother's before 1940. It is really seldom, so uneacy to find on the internet, but I found simmilar,) And it for sure also could have been inspiration to do serie Seta or a part of this wonderful serie later as Headdesigner Aldo Londi for Bitossi 1946-1976, I think. Kanobi® Jewelry |
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 Aldo Londi Serie Seta for Bitossi 1946-1976 screenprint.For Bitossi. My blueish gold wallplate look's like it was created before Serie Seta, because it only has one number and it is more simple doing lines and color's together....I think. Kanobi® Jewelry |  AL Bitossi serie Seta orange for Elbee.Very alike my wallplate, but done after 1946 by Aldo Londi for Bitossi;) You can see, that AL used even more stripes and expanded way's of using color's together with the stripes, so the expression became even stronger of the finished empression you get looking at it. That's also why I think they are all done by AL, because he got even better doing lines and color's together for Bitossi doing serie Seta for Elbee. So strong doing what he was best at "Artistically done Clay"... Kanobi® Jewelry |
I assume, but I am actually sure now, that some of the handsignatures from above may be Aldo Londi's signature for the Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's before WW2, where AL maby distinguished himself to design his signature ITALY special? as TTA LY? I am actually sure of this is correct assumed, because the ceramic's signed that strong and secure way are looking finished in form, color's, structure, painting's, it's eyecatching and also outstanding done all together. Only AL was able exactly to do that, nobody else, not even UZ;)
Also seen Aldo Londi's recognizable signature TTA LY as described below for Bitossi, but with FF or FL in front or behind. And also this one photo above with Ztaly handwritten old way with FF in the handsignature. So that's why I think it was AL creation's for FF Brother's. And we are here back before 1940;)
Aldo Londi signature for Bitossi as I have found it on the internet and can see it.
The ceramic signature has had different form's with and without a signature, that I describe below, but predominantly first handsigned number out of number ex. 302/18 numbering serie/ how many number's of product type I assume and underneath Aldo Londi also handsigned with TTA LY.
Zaccagnini's also used two number's or three number's seperation, not FF Brother's.
So if the signature only show's one number and nothing after the / or no there is only one of this design for Bitossi I think or it was maby Aldo Londi designing for FF brother's.
But really the space between A and L in handsigned TTA LY is significantly to show it is a AL production that you hold in your hand.
When he descided to do so, I cannot say, but he did this before leaving FF Brother's, that I am sure of.
Therefore you also have to look at how the vase, bowl, etc. is made turning the clay, painting it and if it look's creative and finished, I think.
 Aldo Londi mark's Bitossi screenprint.Kanobi® Jewelry |
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 Lamp Fiorentino Flower's screenprintDifferent pattern's and fiorentino flower's than used on earlier Rimini Blue. I think from 1976 sticker's. There are other Bitossi sticker's above. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Lamp Fiorentino Flower's screenprintDifferent pattern's and fiorentino flower's than used on earlier Rimini Blue. I think from 1976 sticker's and maby done by another designer at Bitossi, because it is not AL style..I think. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Lamp Fiorentino Flower's screenprintDifferent pattern's and fiorentino flower's than used on earlier Rimini Blue. I think from 1976 sticker's. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Horse rider's - dot's as on lamp.Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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Aldo Londi's handsignature – his unique way of writing Italy onto the bottom of his Art Clay creation's as I have found it on the internet and can see it.
When AL started at Bitossi he had a short period where he wrote Ztaly, where all letter's are written together, almost like old handwriting. Perhaps with his inspiration from Ugo Zaccagnini or a tribute, as Ugo died in 1937? Seen in the first picture above with a white background. Before that, before he left FF Brother's in 1940, he also wrote Ztaly FF one some of his design's for them, as you find it described above on the screenprint "Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's Mark's".
It also look's difficult to handsign Ztaly, so maby that is why Aldo Londi changed back to handsign TTA LY?
The Z could really also be a upper letter "I" as written in old handwriting way and it look's like a Z, because AL connected to the lower letter t, so it really also show's Italy handwritten Aldo Londi way doing his private signing way?
Generally, Aldo Londi handsigned with TTA LY as I have comparred hundred's of signatures shown on the internet on his creation's and for real my own Aldo Londi Art creation's;). I am actually sure, I am right about this issue, Aldo Londi signed Italy with TTA LY as I describe below.
• He wrote I and T under the same very long line without a dot over the i, so TT.
• Most often seen together with a round A at the top, but also a sharp A as long as you also find A and L seperated.
• Next, a smaller L and finally a Y, where the stroke down from the Y is very long and goes to the left.
Have also often seen that TTA are written together and L and Y are written together.
Have also seen that the seperation of TTA and LY is made by moving LY a bit up, so there is not afterspace but levelspace to LY from the letter's TTA. If you only look at the ITA, the I and A become like written under the same "roof" by the T, because AL signed it TTA;)
Or hansigned with only L. number's out of number's and TTA LY.
Or on relief's A. Londi private way, as it is done on a relief seen in DK, I think maby done after leaving as headdesigner for Bitossi 1976, then only using his private signature A. Londi with a sharp A on the top of the A instead of his artistically done handsignature TTA LY as designer for FF Brother's before 1940 and later for Bitossi as headdesigner in between 1946-1976?
Or only with handsigned TTA LY - then there is only one piece of this kind of Aldo Londi Art Sculpture I believe, like my Feather vase Piume;)
Or handwritten with perhaps an initial from different living companies, ex. I.B. for Illums Bolighus, number/number and TTA LY.
Or only with sticker's. Ex. Bolighuset Illum, so many product's are missing mark's, because the sticker's have fallen of or been removed or washed of. For sure after 1976 I think, because AL stopped as headdesigner here. I also think sticker's only were for a very short time until AL and Bitossi through Colorobbia made stamp ITALY and FLAVIA:
Or only with handsigned number's and stamp ITALY or FLAVIA, where FLAVIA must have been from 1976? Yes, The Flavia for Bitossi Ceramiche page 115 by Luca Londi.
On Colorobbia Group, founded at the same time as Bitossi Ceramiche 1921 by Guido Bitossi, you find the clues.
Bitossi and Colorobbia Group cooperated from 1976 as FLAVIA, to sell ceramiche globally.
Around 1999 all began to call all the ceramic's from Bitossi for Bitossi and not FLAVIA worldwide. So actually both Bitossi and FLAVIA can be found stamped onto the same ceramic piece produced in that period.
It is really also confusing with two names for the same producer I think;) Or relly three, where the stamp ITALY is really the creator/designer and not the company.
The stamp ITALY for Bitossi is then used from 1976 up to 2008 and Flavia not since 1999?
Aldo Londi, regarding to Luca Londi page 57 & 115, retired officially 1976, but he actually did not. AL continued and did a lot of travelling. Around 1985 he often went to Europe and New York, etc. page 117;)
In that perspective Aldo Londi handsigned from 1946-1976 for Bitossi and before for FF Brother's with the earlier way of Aldo Londi way of handsigning TTA LY;)
You also can see, if it is Aldo Londi handsigning by the way the number's are written.... Look them up and see e.g. that the 2 is written by only a very short line on the top and an exactly east west going equal short line on the bottom of the 2.
Depending on the size of the pensil handsigning will look different, because it's uneasy to write with a really tiny or huge brush.
From 2008ish.
Bitossi have now their own stamp Bitossi Flower a la Aldo Londi's Fiorentino Flower's.
https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/collections/archivio-storico.
You can buy new reproduction's of Aldo Londi design's on the above link.
You can also buy vintage product's of Aldo Londi for Bitossi below on Pamono, the homepage to sell Bitossi vintage, that Bitossi uses nowaday's.
https://www.pamono.dk/catalogsearch/result/?q=aldo+londi.
 Aldo Londi Pamono screenprint.Kanobi® Jewelry |
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Below I first compair handwritten TTALY bought as designed by FF - Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's and for sure Aldo Londi for Bitossi serie Genovese bowl as I have found them on the internet and can see it.
I am sure, they are all three handsigned by Aldo Londi, though I cannot prove it;) But the handsinging way look's very alike, don't you think? If you think timedifferences and different brushes in as well....;) Unfortunately I cannot ask Aldo Londi....
The silver vase has exactly the same handsigning as the above picture with Aldo Londi handwriting TTA LY on Rimini blue, though the A is to sharp on the top, but he did sharp A's, when he signed as A. Londi.
It could also have been his designer-friend at Bitossi Alvino Bagni, because of the sharp A or Ugo .Zaccagnini by whom AL show's to be greatly inspired? The way of signing number and B after the slash is used by U.Z. and children in Zaccagnini Art Clay Business, where they moved sout of Firenze in 1912, but UZ still had to work as freelance to make his business grow to live of it before 1928. UZ did not do sharp A's?
I am actually sure it is AL creating for FF Brother's doing AL way of designing people insted of FF Brother's designing people often only as round wemen? So I think it is the very tiny brush strokes making the A become sharp on the top as it show's om my photo below. Or is it actually from the very beginning at Bitossi?
 Compair black '77 vase with Genovese bowl.This way of handsigning cheramic's is for sure Aldo Londi signing I think, because you find it also signed this way for Bitossi all over the internet. Here we maby have Aldo Londi handsigning TTA LY for Fratelli Fanciulacci Brothers before he worked for Bitossi...so before 2. World War. Another of my thesis is that this creation is done as a tribute to Elvis Presley as he died in 1977, because 77 is handsigned after TTA LY. There is also only one creation of this vase I think. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  AL people silver vase.I think this vase is an early vase for Bitossi in silver. My wonderful AL People vase bought for 35 kr. as second hand in DK. I did only the sgrafiito in silverlook. First arrived at home I saw the AL People;) This kind of people you also find in purple, orange, white with doveblue boddies on vases, lamp's, e.g. They are different from FF normally doing people;) You also find signature Z. outside and L. inside;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Compair Genovese bowl with vase black 77.I think that Genovese for sure is designed, produced and handsigned by Aldo Londi at the time, where AL still handsigned his design's for Bitossi. It is signed using gold onto black bottom as the '77 black vase. Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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Then I compair Feather serie Piume, Pendel Bartoldy and Al "Tree of life".
The first photo below show's the feather serie Piume and is only handsigned TTALY, so there is only one of this beautiful vase.
The middle photo show's a pendel made by Danish Bartholdy Keramik also inspired by Alhambra, I think and the symbol's alike the serie that Aldo Londi called Rimini blue serie "Spagnoli" as well inspired from Granada, I think.
Last photo show that Aldo Londi also got inspired by Scandinavian Myth's I think when he created "Tree of life", as our viking's belived in "Ask Ygdrasil", an ash tree called Ygdrasil as the symbol for The Whole Universe. He has done it as square also symbolizing "The Whole" Universe. Here AL has handsigned with only L., number out of number and
TTA LY.
And you will not right now 01.02.25 find one alike. I have only been able to find dove bowl's, ashtray's... done with this kind of leaf pattern, not another wall plate. It is also handsigned using gold onto black glaze by head designer Aldo Londi for Bitossi, I think;)
His feather serie Piume produced for Raymore is inspired by Swedish Stig Lindberg feather design's, as I can see it on the internet comparing Stig Lindberg's feather design's with Aldo Londi's.
Maby they agreed on or did the feather serie's together jamming clay? I actually think that, because I can see, that they did leaves very alike, but did the color's opposite each other. So were the leaves are done light colored and the background darker, the other artist did the coloring opposite way. Stig Lindberg also did Nordic leaves as Al did Olive's from Firentino.
Aldo Londi made the feather's shine using the clay from Montelupo, Fiorentino, Italy and glazed it white in his way, where the white glaze look's as floating together and the feather's with thin black lines through them, which makes them look outstanding, well composed and finished, I think.
It is really an honour to have inspired Aldo Londi, because he was The Art Clay Genius doing wonderful timeless ancient inspired clay sculptures, I think.
Aldo Londi's white lamp in the Ikano serie with a Rimini Blue ribbon around it is actually quite inspired by Danish Bartholdy Keramik, etc, as I can find it on the internet.
His globe Ikano, the globe as symbol, mean's "The Whole or The Whole Universe or The Whole World or everything" and "I kano" is written or spoken "in a canoe" in danish, so I think Aldo Londi must have felt fabolous trying canoe, ex. in Denmark at Gudenåen, where we mostly go by canoe. He also could have joined into the nature by canoe in Sweden and Finland, where they have a lot of large lakes and alway's have used canoes to fish, travel, etc.
Luca Londi writes, that Aldo Londi especially met with Swedish and Finnish ceramicist's and also made friend's worldwide.
So greath, that he made the serie IKANO produced for Bergbom's in Sweden with globe symbol. Eg. the white lamp with rimini blue lines around including the circle or globe in his way and then coloring the clay with white as "All (round) free spirit" and turquise "main serie Rimini Blue" as "water from Rimini" glaze. So passionated into life, I think.
This I show you on a screenprint below.
In the tour video from Bitossi Museum below you find clues to the officially version of what Aldo Londi got inspired by to do Rimini Blue.
 AL Feather serie Piume.I think, only one of this vase, because there are no number's. But there is not enough space between A and L .... It is fore sure done by AL for Bitossi. LY is lifted up to do the space between A and L and A is signed twice to do the darker tone. I have not jet found any alike this on the internet;) I got the only one created by AL;) Kanobi® Jewelry |  Bartholdy's "Cheese" pendel "Persien blue".Kanobi® Jewelry |  AL "Tree of Life" Scandinavia Myth's."Ask Ygdrasil" I think;) And it is for sure a wall plate. But there is different space between A and L where LY is lifted and the A is a kind of sharp on the top.... Serie 63 or b3/done 10 pieces;) And I got one;) I think done before Mainserie Rimini Blue 1959 ....Afterward's AL uses only black and red together, not together with Rimini Blueish....when handsigned with 24 carat gold. I have not jet found any other Ask Ygdrasil wallplate alike on the internet;) Kanobi® Jewelry |
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Last I also compair Aldo Londi handsigning producing for Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's and Bitossi as I have found them on the internet and can see it.
This way of doing clay, where you scratch, lift and form the surface of the clay is called Sgraffito.
On the first three photo's below you find Aldo Londi Sgraffito People I think;)
You also find Aldo Londi Sgraffito Symbol Pattern's, I think this serie could be called;)
Actually, I think, that you can see in the photo's below, how Aldo Londi got inspired later, exactly from 1959, creating the structure for the Rimini Blue main serie. He is also inspired from his earlier production's of Sgraffito for FF Brother's;)
He used a lot of symbol's and I think, that his time in Africa captured during Second World War has inspired him to do pattern's alike African pattern's as well. So I think that he also got inspired during the capturing beside the suffering's. Actually Aldo Londi did travel to Africa before, during and after war as told by Luca Londi in his book about his father.
While creating for FF I think in the last period Aldo Londi made crome/silver on clay with people as decoration, as he continued doing after joining Bitossi. I have found different production's sold as Aldo Londi for Bitossi and they look like some of the ones sold as FF Brother's and the opposite way on the internet.
The shapes of the people changed, the totally ballanced creation's turning the clay around while creating did not change, nor did the creativity and the artistical way of creating people, I think;) The silver vase you find again below.
The people just look diffferent in Aldo Londi's Sgraffito way also doing lines as on my Sun Lava blueish Wall Plate and look's like inspiration for serie Seta.
They are not only wemen all of them as FF created people mostly, Aldo Londi did also mixed people as both wemen and men on everything, ex. vases, lamp's, etc.;)
Below you first find screenprint from the internet, where a vase is sold as FF Brother's doing a women on a jug, but actually it is for Bitossi, because there are two number's. This women look exactly as the wemen often done for FF Brother's, so therefore it could be Aldo Londi doing them;) You find my two wonderful lamp's as, I am actually sure, Aldo Londi creation's for FF Brother's, because there is only one number and the handsignature is TTA LY significant for A L.
 Comparing AL people Bitossi and FF.Screenprint. There are two number's therefore not AL for FF, but AL for Bitossi after 1946. As you can see this women is exactly as wemen done for FF Brother's, so it can also be AL doing the same kind of wemen for FF Brother's before 1940;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL people Bitossi and FF.Screenprint. There are two number's therefore not AL for FF, but AL for Bitossi after 1946. As you can see this women is exactly as wemen done for FF Brother's, so it can also be AL doing the same kind of wemen for FF Brother's before 1940;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL people Bitossi and FF.Screenprint. There are two number's therefore not AL for FF, but AL for Bitossi after 1946. As you can see this women is exactly as wemen done for FF Brother's, so it can also be AL doing the same kind of wemen for FF Brother's before 1940;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL people Bitossi and FF.Screenprint. There are two number's therefore not AL for FF, but AL for Bitossi after 1946. As you can see this women is exactly as wemen done for FF Brother's, so it can also be AL doing the same kind of wemen for FF Brother's before 1940;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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 Comparing AL Sgraffito People for FF and B.The two lamp's are Aldo Londi for FF before 1940 I think, because there is only one number above handsigned TTA LY. But there is not enough space between A and L and the A is sharp on the top.... Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL Sgraffito People for FF and B.I think, here we find Aldo Londi handsignatures on all tree beautiful creation's. The lamp's are designed before 1940 and the silvervase is handsigned with one number and a B and therefore after 1946. They are all serie Sgraffito with exactly Aldo Londi way of doing people together;) These lamp's are number 8798 of art creation's done by Aldo Londi for FF Brother's. It does not say how many of this kind. That could be why AL used two number's as Art Director;) Space between AL? Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL Sgraffito People for FF and B.The two lamp's are Aldo Londi for FF before 1940 I think, because there is only one number above handsigned TTA LY. But there is not enough space between A and L and the A is sharp on the top. The vase got two number's, so AL for Bitossi after 1945... Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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 Comparing AL Sgraffito Pattern's for FF & B.Three beautiful Sgraffito lamp's and vase. Here I also think we have Aldo Londi creating a beautiful lamp and vase on the left side for FF Brother's and a lamp as his 66 serie produced for Bitossi. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL Sgraffito Pattern's for FF & B.Sgraffito lamp with flower's designed for Bitossi, because there are two number's and handsigned TTA LY I think;) When you look closely to the way he handsigned both lamp's, you see, that he did it exactly the same way. The handsigning is done with to different material's. Green glaze and different paint to handsign. That is why is look's as written with tiny circles. It is like if you first paint with watercolor and then oilpaint on top. It makes the paint disconnect. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Comparing AL Sgraffito Pattern's for FF & B.I think, two beautiful Aldo Londi creation's Sgraffito lamp's and vase done for Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's before 1945, because there is only one number and handsigned with TTA LY. There are also bobbel's in the black on green handsignature here. Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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Two Ceramic Museum's in the town of Montelupo, Fiorentino.
Today's city museum Ceramics Museum of Montelupo Fiorentino is the earlier company Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's renovated and owned by The Municipality of Montelupo, Firentino, Italy.
 Ceramiche Museum of Montelupo, Fiorentino, Italy Google Maps screenprint.Restored building's by Municipality of Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's Ceramiche Factory. Kanobi® Jewelry |
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If you then walk max. 500 meter's further down the street, Via Antonio Gramsci, 50056 Montelupo Fiorentino FI, Italy, you come to the Bitossi company with the Bitossi Museum as an extension and designproduction's continues with many different designer's employed. Also the local Art School is exactly here;)
Bitossi al in al includes.
Foundation and Museum https://www.fondazionevittorianobitossi.it/en
Bitossi Art creation's and artschool https://www.bitossiceramiche.it/
Bitossi - everyday's tableware https://www.bitossihome.it/en/pages/lazienda
Colorobbia - colour's to buy https://www.colorobbiart.it/en/century/
Colorobbia - part for ceramic industries worldwide https://www.colorobbia.com/en/solutions/
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 Bitossi Ceramiche, Museum, Colorobbia and Art School, Montelupo, Fiorentino, Italy.Google Maps screenprint. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Pillar's Sgraffito by Aldo Londi.Rimini Blue & red Pattern's and Fiori di Fiorentina (Flowers of) by Aldo Londi;) As an Art Teacher I see Aldo Londi pattern's as symbol's using the book "Politikens Symbol Leksikon, 2. udg., 3. opl. 2001". Vases, lamp's, bowl's... as Pillar's connecting earth & heaven. Decoration's as panes symbol's for world of the senses, flower's as growth, symbol of infinity, squares The Earth, blueish to be open, green dobble meaning, brown earth, yellow & red sun, king, love, fire... Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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Luca Londi describes on the page 78 about Aldo Londi Pillar's as Aldo Londi of Montelupo area and timespace;)
You can see a tour at Bitossi Museum on the youtube link here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtQYfDqTVLI.
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 Bitossi & FF Museum's in Montelupo Google Maps.Google Maps screenprint. Kanobi® Jewelry |
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In the very beginning of producing for Bitossi AL did the serie Genovese, where I have a mug with AL way of writing Italy as old handwriting looking like Ztaly, but really I think it is still written Italy, as you find it explained above under AL signature.
Before Genovese or up to or at the same time or after the square plate below is produced I think;).
This I show to you first, because it has only got one number and the handsigning is not like Aldo Londi way of handsigning. It look's like one of the FF Brother's handsigning, but it is without two FF. The number is written after ITALY and therefor probably not done by FF' Brother's.
So maby this plate is actually done by other's, ex. Studio 4,, Ceramic Tadinate, Deruta or Nuovo Rinascimento... as they produced simmilar to Bitossi.
The way of having white areas in the signature is alike my bowl in Rimini Blue done much later for Bitossi and I think they wiped a letter away and put the visible in after leaving the glaze to dry;)
As you can compare my two sculptures below, they both include whiteish areas in some letter's and I only think it done because they wrote a wrong letter for the buyer's.
The first plate is not created by Aldo Londi nor other's for Bitossi or FF Brother's I think.
The bowl with AL symbol's in Rimini Blue wonderful color's is for sure designed by AL for Bitossi.
 Not AL for Bitossi or FF, number beneath, missing FF..I think this plate is actually done by other's than AL, e.g. Studio 4, Ceramic Tadinate, Deruta or Nuovo Rinascimento. Actually I think it is Studio 4, because the claystructure with tiny stones in it look really simmilar to Bitossi way and only Studio 4 to know how, because they used to work at Bitossi. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Retush on the letter's AL handsigning this bowl Rimini Blue...For sure AL color's and pattern's and structure;) Including wiped away letter's under the compagny it was going to be delivered to. Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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 Genovese Aldo Londi.Like old handsigning from the very beginning at Bitossi Ceramiche I think. You find Ztaly on this beautiful Genovese Jar;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |  C30/12 Genovese AL.Actually it look's like handsigned C30/ bAL written together & not /12. It is not easy to see I think. I am sure to have seen AL outside synagogue Odense DK back in 1987-89ish wearing a natual lightbrownish colored leather skull Catholic's;) Drew him afterward's waiting for green light to cross the road Albanigade;) When you look on the signature here, it for sure looks like it is hold in the right hand to sign it with the left. So Aldo Londi could have been lefthanded or?. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Genovese Aldo Londi Handsigning all together.Beautiful Genovese Jar;) "I can see it, because I hold the jar in my right hand;)" I think Aldo Londi was lefthanded looking at this jar and how it must have been holding it to sign that way, exactly because I am also lefthanded and proud of it;) I was asked to throw a ball in the 1. class of Primery School and could fortunately use the hand, that catched the ball;) Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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 Aldo Londi Ceramist.Aldo Londi Ceramist. Biography by Luca Londi bought and recieved 25.07.24. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Aldo Londi Ceramist.Aldo Londi Ceramist. Biography by Luca Londi bought and recieved 25.07.24. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Aldo Londi Ceramist.Aldo Londi Ceramist. Biography by Luca Londi bought and recieved 25.07.24. Kanobi® Jewelry. |  Aldo Londi Ceramist.Aldo Londi Ceramist. Biography by Luca Londi bought and recieved 25.07.24. Kanobi® Jewelry. |
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As I have found it on the internet and can see it Aldo Londi all in all handsigned with
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ZTALY or really Italy Italy in old private handwriting also together with TTA LY up to 1940 for FF Brother's and from 1946 to? Only short period for Bitossi his son Luca Londi writes. I think during the time until he became headdesigner for Bitossi. Then he made his artistically way of his handsignature handsigning ITALY as headdesigner for Bitossi.
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Artistical TTA LY seperating TTA from LY by afterspace or upperspace to make A L visible in handsigned TTALY for both Fratelli Fanciulacci Brother's 1922-40ish and Bitossi 1946-1976 for sure.
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Mark's as sticker's that have fallen of your cretion, unfortunately...I think from 1976 short period, because they fell of Bitossi creation's.
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1976 Bitossi and Aldo Londi was sold as stamp ITALY in Europe and USA and also FLAVIA (Bitossi and AL) worldwide. Aldo Londi kept signing the number's by hand (AL handsigned number's), so you find his handsignature looking at the handsigned number's together with stamp ITALY or FLAVIA or both stamp's on the same piece until 1999, where they dropped stamp FLAVIA and it all became Bitossi. From 1999-2003 (AL died here), it is for sure stamp ITALY maby together with handsigned number's by Aldo Londi. I think he did so, because he kept on designing as long as he could do it at Bitossi and stopped only as head designer 1976 officially, not as creative genius claymaker forever documented by Luca Londi in his book.
And how can I know it is Aldo Londi handsigning TTA LY, because Bitossi keep's it as a secret?
Aldo Londi was so much into doing the single part's to perfection with his touch leaving it creative as well as the whole looking at his production's while creating them, here Art Clay Product's from Montelupo done using clay from the local river in Montelupo area.
Therefore he also experimented with his creative brushstrokes in his artistic done handsignature and made the lines to his way of expressing ITALY.
TTA is really ITA, where I and A is under the same "roof" of the T. Aldo Londi's wife was named Iolanda....
Because, that way written, with a round A on the top only possible to paint with a brush not to small or wide and really only an Artist beeing able to do the round part on top of the A, It is nearly impossible to do exactly that. The brush seem's to become alive, when you try it going in other direction's, than you want it too. It is much easier to do sharp A's on the top part. That's why AL did round's, when handsigning his expressive artistical way of ITALY, not his personal signature A. Londi;)
The space between A L. as on a line or upper space makes the TTA LY show Aldo Londi in his designed handsignature of Italy.
LY mean's also to have rest and have a shelter.
He eighter handsigned himself as TTA LY or he made all his worker's as head designer sign that way. But it for sure look's like it is himself signing in best Aldo Londi way of doing lines and waves. So secure doing, what he was eminent at - ART's as designer, potter, creator and painter.
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A. Londi private way of handsigning - relief's seen in Denmark - to 2003;)
You can buy AL's son LUCA LONDI's book as The book about Aldo Londi here.
Regardfing to Luca Londi his parent's merried 1951 and it is uncertain, when they met.
So it is then also uncertain, when Aldo Londi descieded to make his handsignature ITALY different with a longer stroke over the ITA.
The seperation of A and L and the long stroke down to the left from the Y, I think he did decied to do much earlier working for FF Brother's, where I think he started doing ITALY in the very beginning working for them as designer for FF Brother's. Then desided seperating A and L and then creating the T as a roof over, maby first IT or TA and later merrying Iolanda 1951 working for Bitossi making a connecting line over ITA all together under the roof of T.
So you will also find different handsigning way's of ITA LY for FF Brother's, where it is still visible to see, it was AL handsigning the same strong line as secure way turning the clay to perfekt shape, painting without leaving areas without paint onless the standing part's painting with brush for both FF Brother's and Bitossi.
And he still made it creative, so, e.g. the dot's or squares around his art's were not pricesely in a sharp row, though they look like, when you look at it without fokus. So he left it creatively done;)
A video about Bitossi art creation's and Aldo Londi telling about art's and his ball turning to perfection you find here on Youtube.
filmato Londi ridotto.
There is also the link to, where Luca Londi show's
Aldo Londi The Museum.
Buongiorno Maestro 2007
And of cause Bitossi Ceramiche;)
Bitossi Ceramica.
Ceramiche artistiche Bitossi.
Regarding to email's from Bitossi, Aldo Londi only created one bust as buddha bust Quan Yin. and it is easy to see, that he was inspired by his master Ugo Zaccagnini also doing oriental figures, eg. in blueish and umbra. Look them up on the internet...
The other kind of bust's than Quan Yin are regarding to email from Bitossi done by other designer's at Bitossi, not Aldo Londi. As you can see it, they are still all sold as AL design's on the internet!
Kwan Yin symbolize the goodness and has also an old story about her, so she is interpreteded in many different cultures as art schulptures around the whole World;)
This bust below is for sure designed and created by Aldo Londi and the one I show to you is created in the most wonderful lava structure, here glazed in Rimini Blue as Kwan Yin.
She is created in Montelupo clay boiled to hot, I think, while AL experimented creatively with all sort's of production's turning out as lava structured Rimini Blue creative sculpture .
Kwan Yin as God of goodness done by Aldo Londi comes in all sort's of color's, structures, with high or low foot and with or without symbol-pattern's onto them.
Aldo Londi artistical clay creation's were and are timeless I also think, exactly because they are uniq, including symbol's and therefore inhold life stories to look at;)
They are with the soul of life symbol's done by AL for FF Brother's and Bitsossi in serie's where he was experimenting with sgraffito, emprinting, color's, surfaces, etc. and outstanding way's of thinking history, cultures and belief's into Clay Art's his way of expressing Art Clay;)
They are not only done with stripes, etc., they also inclosure the art interlectual mindset of Art School's Worldwide - The Story (ex. Rimini blue water from AL visiting Rimini) and Symbol's of Art;)
Above I leave Aldo Londi Masterpieces as my last selfdone creative picture of LAVA Structure Sgraffito Symbol Pattern's and The Guanyin or Kwan Yin or Quan Yin 47/104 TTALY as the Goodness of The World done in the same period from 1959 to 2003 as my Rimini Blueish Lava structured lamp from the very early period Aldo Londi for Bitossi as Art Designer.
Aldo Londi designed The Timeless Master Art Serie Rimini Blue for sure inspired from a visit to the costline of Rimini I think including all his wonderful ART SYMBOL'S telling stories so important to make Byond Aldo Londi ART'S and not only production's of clay. The "jamming" together with other potter's or in "total Flow as high artistical spirit" get's lost then;)
There is no story with only stripes or lines... they are not defined in my "Politikens Symbol Leksikon, 2. udg., 3. opl. 2001", but to me they are only North/South or East/West going lines without Jam, Flow or Passione or Soul to transmit to us.
Exactly The passione is the hight's of life described so well by symbol's and stories as the Scandinavian "Ask Ygdrasil" or "Quan Yin";) There are lot's of Myth's here, so do them;)
Also the handsigned by Aldo Londi is important, so do stamp Aldo Londi TTA LY, as AL exactly did handsign for many year's for Bitossi - from before 1946 for FF and alway's nearly, unless the short time with ZTALY or really Italy, for Bitossi onto his personal wonderful Art Design's.
We are not all into split second's fortunately;) It is a gift to have been brought up with "stop and listen to the nature" - To Rest is important and we are capable, if we are left to do so..... The Rest Space tell's real stories, if you got the time to listen;)
Aldo Londi was a genius to make Clay Art's become breathless and outstanding, because of the use of basic color's primery "Rimini blue" or "Sun colored" color's combined with Earth color's primery "Umbra", "Art symbols" and "Cultural stories" including "Historical symbol's". All showing his Genious Designed Art Clay creation's from FF brother's until the second Word War and after from 1946-1976...2003 for Bitossi doing seperation between A L in his handsigned
TTA LY.
 Fiorentino Flower's handpainted AL Bobbles handsigned;)Or actually UZ because of the flat A and missing space between A and L;) No, it's AL I think. Kanobi® Jewelry |  Compair Fiorentino Flower's Bitossi.I think there are simmilarities here jamming Montelupo Clay from the local river, don't you? Kanobi® Jewelry |  Fiorentino Love Clay Architecture - A.Londi relief DK - copyright's screenprint ok by owner.A wonderful relief by Aldo Londi about Aldo Londi;) Aldo Londi as black, but redish ocher part's head & eye's Montelupo clay connedting to the designvase. The red bird - love to clay bringing a ocher branch with leaves and the pear also meaning love with color's to paint. Vase placed onto ground and AL on a plateau. Behind line's as construction's. He has made himself as a bust, but really the art clay is the fokus here done by AL. WOW. 1985 AL's wife dies - tribute & passione red bird to her;) |
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