# Matteo Thun artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/matteo-thun/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:44:04.914Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Ceramics, Designed objects

## About Matteo Thun

Matteo Thun is an Italian architect and designer born in 1952. Authority records establish a consistent identity for him across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, and VIAF; VIAF additionally identifies him as a ceramicist. The collected biographical material describes a practice spanning architecture, interiors, object design, and ceramics. This breadth is important in an appraisal setting because objects associated with his name may belong to different design contexts rather than a single fine-art medium. Collectors may encounter his work through design and ceramic auction categories, but the available sources do not identify particular models, manufacturers, editions, or production dates. Although a Wikipedia source associates Thun with the Memphis group, that affiliation was not independently confirmed by an institutional or scholarly excerpt in the collected pack and is therefore not presented here as a verified movement classification. Attribution of an individual object should be assessed from its own markings, documentation, and relevant comparable records.

## Common works and media

The available evidence supports designed objects and ceramics as the principal work types likely to appear in appraisal or auction research. It does not establish specific furniture, lighting, glass, poster, edition, manufacturer, or product-series categories, so those details should be verified from the individual object and its documentation.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal research for Matteo Thun should first distinguish between designed objects and ceramic work, the two collectible categories supported by the collected sources. Appraisily has an artist auction-record page for his name, but this source pack does not include item-level cataloguing, realized prices, manufacturer information, editions, or major auction-house commentary. Comparable records should therefore be filtered to the same object type and an appropriate sale period before they are used as market evidence. The present research does not support a price trend, scarcity claim, or general value range. Any individual conclusion still depends on verifying the object-specific attribution and comparing it with sufficiently similar public sales.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched artist identity records with auction records and, when available, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots. Evidence availability varies by artist and object category.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q874137
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/95874355/
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500031276
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Thun
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Thun
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/matteo-thun/