Paolo Venini
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a smoke coloured "Mosaico Zanfirico" vase, Murano, Italy 1950's.
The zanfirico decoration in white, acid signature venini murano ITALIA. Height 27 cm.
Exhibitions
This model was included in a Venini exhibition at the Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm 1954.
Also shown at:
Milan 10th Triennale, 1954
Milan 11th Triennale, 1957
Literature
Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego (ed), "Paolo Venini and his furnace", Skira, Milano 2016, model nr 3858, pp 216-217, 219.
Helmut Ricke, Eva Schmitt (ed), "Italienisches Glas Murano Mailand 1930-1970. Die Sammlung der Steinberg Foundation", Prestel-Verlag, Munich 1996, compare nr 120, p 140.
Anna Venini Díaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Skira, 2000. Catalogue nr 54, p 106. The same model in the Barry Friedman Collection, New York.
More information
This model, nr 3858 was also executed in a blue glass and was called "Oceano".
Designer
The Italian glass artist Paolo Venini was one of the leading figures in the production of Murano glass. He is known for having founded the eponymous Venini & C. glassworks.
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