Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons with the main frame a

with the main frame a sort of mellowed oxblood and the decorative frame a very mellow gold

The reverse side is blank

and bands of pattern around neck and base

and at the Donahue / Sosinski in 2002 and 2002

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons with the main frame aIn 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,