a burgundy and white "Murrina" bowl, Italy 1950's.
Decorated with inserts of murrina glass. Acid rectangular signature venini murano ITALIA (faintly). Height 12 cm, diameter 20 cm.
Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, "Venini, Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986", compare the model illustrated from the Barry Friedman collection, nr 59, p 110 and catalogue nr 87, pp 206-207.
This model was designed in 1954.
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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