Designer: Lino Sabattini (1925 - 2016)

Item: Salad Servers

Manufactured by: Sabatini Argenteria

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: Ca. 1960s

Materials: Silverplate over brass

Dimensions: 12 ¾” x 1 ½ ” 

Condition: Excellent used condition. 

References: Made in Italy: 45 Jahre Design in Silber, Grassimuseum Leipzig, Germany, 1995; Enrico Marelli, Lino Sabattini: Imitations and Craftsmanship, Edizioni Metron, 1979.

Description:  These narrow salad servers are a rare design by Sabatini that are seldom seen.  We have never seen another set of this exact design.  They are marked Sabattini, ESPN.  In 1964 after leaving Christofle, Sabattini opened a studio in Bregnano, Italy. The limited editions of Sabattini designs produced by his Argenteria Sabattini firm have become highly coveted by connoisseurs.  This is another set that came directly from a family that purchased it in the 1960s.  They were rarely if ever used and kept in the original blue felt bag.