Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage a renowned Nova Scotia-based Canadian

a renowned Nova Scotia-based Canadian carver who became known in the 1960s for his sleek

6 1/2" across at base

and to pour a whisky and set this out on a table near a fireplace on a winter's day is about the most fabulous thing I can imagine

impressed with scaly texture

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish rite of passage a renowned Nova Scotia-based CanadianIn 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,