Luigi Carron designed this stunning Mid-Century Modern ceramic vase for Alcyone of Marostica, Italy, circa 1950. The chunky amphora shape has painted geometric and stylized animal designs. The design pattern is different around the vase. This piece has a tall, elongated proportion with a narrow collar. The vase is signed on the underside, Alcyone - Italy.
 
Reference: Alcyone of Marostica was a ceramic factory active in Marostica, near Nove di Bassano, from 1955 to 1987. It was founded by Luigi Carron, Ferruccio Los, Visonà di Valdagno, Ferruccio Costacurta, and Mario Pozza.
Luigi Carron was born in Marostica, in the province of Vicenza, in 1926. At 17, he was already a partisan escort of the Osoppo Brigade and fought against the Nazi-fascist occupation.
At the end of the war, he graduated from the artistic high school in his hometown and began drawing at the Graziani College in Bassano. Around the mid-fifties, together with the members Ferruccio Los, Visonà di Valdagno, Ferruccio Costacurta, and Mario Pozza, they founded the ceramic laboratory "Alcyone" in Nove di Bassano.
A painter, sculptor, medalist, and ceramist, in 1979, he created the central door of the Arcipretale Church of Marostica.
In 1995, he created a ceramic Via Crucis for the Church of San Luca.
He died in Marostica in 2006