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Materials:

Hand-blown zolfo and black colored 'mezzaluna' murrine

Size Notes:

diameter-11 cm

Description:

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Exhibited:

Examples of the present model vase have been exhibited at the X Milan Triennale and XXVII Venice Biennale, in 1954.

Literature:

Other examples of this model illustrated: 'Piccola rassegna di Venini', Domus, no. 305, April 1955, p. 52; M. Barovier, R. Barovier Mentasti, A. Dorigato, Il Vetro di Murano alle Biennali 1895-1972, Milan, 1995, p. 85; M. Barovier and C. Sonego, (eds.), Paolo Venini and His Furnace, exh. cat., Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2016, pp. 172, 176-77, for other examples and period images of this design.

Provenance:

Private Collection, Stockholm; Thence by descent.