Bitossi (Italy)

Just because it looks like Bitossi, doesn't mean it is by Bitossi.
This vase was bought by a tourist 15yrs ago from an established family pottery in Sardinia and is stamped on the base Sardartis Castelsardo.
Bitossi is part of the much larger Gruppo Colorobbia which supplies the same clays and oxides used by Bitossi worldwide, so anyone can produce their own Bitossi-style range of ceramics if they wished.

Alex_s wrote:I know there were quite a few colourways around, and I know that some were unmarked (like this one). But do we think this is really Bitossi, or something else? It's a good heavy piece of pot, and the glaze is nice.

The vase shape, colouring and heaviness of the stamped decoration looks German to me.

if this isn't bitossi then the whole thing needs reviewing

That's my worry.

I've been trying to confirm whether or not this brown vase is Bitossi. I'm 70% sure it is - it has the grog-filled clay, hand-stamped decoration, glazed base, and remains of a label that might be Bitossi or Raymor, but it's unmarked and the label's unreadable.
The other pieces I've found with the same pattern are also unmarked, but do have the right coloured rimini blu and are listed as Bitossi (on ebay, if that's worth anything). This may mean they were made for export and the retailer didn't want a pottery mark on it - which happened on some of Bitossi's pieces made for Raymor - or it's from another Italian pottery, maybe also retailed by Raymor.
Until I find a Bitossi - Raymor piece with the same pattern and it's label intact I won't know for certain.

Small lidded pot.

skay wrote: I'm getting a little confused, I was going to suggest splitting this topic to a discussion about possible Bittossi misattributions. Or did they get positive ID's, please?

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I'm still digging. At the moment I think you have to class them all under Bitossi, even if there are copycats, because I can't see a pottery making copycat Bitossi pots without being taken to court, so there must be a logical explanation such as being allowed to make them on licence, shipping them in for the tourists and pretending to make them, or maybe someone in the family moved to Sardinia and set up their own pottery.

...Except Alex_s's pot. That should probably be moved to ID My Pottery as it's very unlikely to be Bitossi.