Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons I can't find any other

I can't find any other sets out there more sale

orange and yellow where the circles intersect

There is one area on the interior where the bark has come away from the wood

and feels to me as if it ought to inspire a novel or a play or at least a poem about childhood and fantasy and confronting the existential void

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

Rare c. 1960s Fornasetti Double "Le Arpie Gentili" Dish carved spoons I can't find any otherIn 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,