Italian Ceramics: Mark’s Top Pick!

25 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this segment of the YouTube video “Italian Ceramics: Mark’s Top Pick!”, the presenter explains his personal favorite piece from a collection of Italian ceramics. He emphasizes his collecting focus on rare and uncommon items, and highlights a lidded pot featuring the “Berna” pattern as his top pick. The pot is notable for its uncommon decorative style, subdued coloration, and the fact that it bears the personal signature of Aldo Lundy, a designer who worked for Bitossi for over 30 years. The speaker underscores the significance of Lundy’s direct involvement in the piece, making it especially appealing to him beyond monetary value.

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if you were going to pick one of these pieces as your personal pick, forget value, just something that you like yourself, what would you pick? So I actually do collect Italian ceramics, and I try to collect the more rare, more uncommon pieces. So out of all of these, I would probably pick this. Um, it's a more uncommon decor. It's a lidded pot, a ceramic lid. You just don't, you just don't see this very often. It's not quite as bright as the other ones. Berna is the name of this pattern. So this is actually— it says Zitteli, and this is Aldo Lundy, who designed for Bitossi for over 30 years. This is his personal signature. So this was made by Aldo Lundy, the designer for Bitossi, which makes it even more cool. Mm-hmm. That it was him himself that made this pot.