Featured Authentic Bitossi?

In the AI summary you posted screenshots of there's little link icons to the right of the "details" that should indicate a source website the information is from. I would love to know what that is because it could be a good reference site. Or it could be AI nonsense...

 

I entered the same search term and got this and similar results each time. It seems likely to just be pulling from online listings. Doesn't make it wrong information, of course.

Examples of Bitossi Bull Form Numbers

• Form Number 4527: A common number found on a blue bull, according to an Etsy listing.
• Form Number 2786-Z: Associated with a red bull design, as shown in an Etsy UK listing.
• Form Number 42120/628: A marking seen on a modernist bull sculpture from the Rimini Blu series, notes Haute Curature.

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I did go back and looked at my emails from 2016 when I originally posted my orange bull. I did email Bitossi asking about it but they never responded. (They had responded when I asked about my lamp a few years earlier but no additional information about my bull from them.)

There was a link in the discussion to a facebook group that might be a source to check (if they are still active)
https://www.antiquers.com/threads/italy-orange-bull-mcm-bitossi-walter.12680/#post-180711

 

Walter contributed some helpful comments about Bitossi bulls in THIS thread on an Italian Pottery Marks forum.
In that thread, he also posted the following photo of a genuine Bitossi bull for comparison and mentioned taking note of the "very deliberate and careful placement of the impressed designs". (The marks on OPs look somewhat messier, IMHO. And note the imprecise placement of the black coloring over the design on the OP bull's back. But... this could just be the difference between newer and older Bitossi bulls?)

 

interesting thread, walter seemed to suggest that the bulls were only produced in rimini blue, so would be dubious in anything not in that colour.

think he(walter) had had enough (or passed) by the time someone added this into the mix, but (unusual as it is) believe it to be bitossi as well

 

Walter's statement about color in the forum thread that I linked to is from 2010... perhaps at that time there were only Rimini Blue bulls...?

 

very true...........god knows whats out there now of course, but he seemed to suggest the originals (londi) were only produced in blue, so everything else should be viewed with scepticism.

think if he was to have created one in a different colour it might have been similar to the colour here

 

always loved this pic

 

its the mix of the colour in the colour that makes it !

 

yep-tiny variations make it sing.

 

he musta been happy with that particular one as it really does

wondering if that light tone that shows is actually the colour of the pottery coming through, which gives it even more impact

touch of yellowy green as well, or yellow that has mixed with the blue to make the green

 

be interesting to find out how he applied the little decorational parts, as there looks to be something interesting about how they look, especially compared to fake ones anyway

 

the decorations (some/most) look applied in long strips as opposed to individually as each area has a look of uniformity that keeps it more rigid (as a design)

 

not ai (but beginning to emulate)

could ai do this

 

The near perfection of some of the stamping runs do give that impression ?
be nice to find an old film on YouTube of Londi working.
PS-Would they have used a stamping wheel ? The uniformity is evident (at least IMHO).

 

Not an old film but I've been watching this tour of the Bitossi Museum. Unfortunately is doesn't focus on bulls but the person filming has her own that she shows at the end. She does mention seeing all the different colors the bulls came in but it's only a mention, at the end.

I tried to pull of few screenshots of the few bulls that I saw.



from the museum


no bulls but flowers similar to a bull mentioned in earlier post






owned by the narrator