Vintage c. 1970 Fornasetti Conchiglie (Seashell) Plate lithographed tin with the short sides slightly

with the short sides slightly recessed from the long sides so as to look like pages

I will always happily accept returns and send you a pre-paid return shipping label

and also emblematic of the want to preserve pieces of the past and carry them forward) and I believe this is both--a tintype copy I'd guess of an daguerreotype or ambrotype of a painting of a young child

and pretty green edge and salmony pink body on this bowl

with a warm and substantial presence

Vintage c. 1970 Fornasetti Conchiglie (Seashell) Plate lithographed tin with the short sides slightlyA happy surprise to find this one at a shop in coastal New Hampshire the other day where I don't often find much and it was a bit hidden in a far corner, not identified as Fornasetti by the dealer. But Fornasetti it is, stamped on reverse and signed, too one of a set of "Conchiglie" dinner plates Fornasetti produced in the late 1960s early 1970s (there's a set of six on 1st dibs for $1650.) With sprawling starfish at center, and a mussel (complete