Paolo Venini
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a "Mezzaluna Murrine" glass vase, model no. 3670, Venini, Murano, Italy, 1950s.
Four-sided base, wave-shaped rim, black decoration against a white background, acid-etched signature venini murano. Height 32 cm.
Provenance
The present vase was a wedding gift in 1960, likely acquired in Stockholm in November 1959 at the Nordiska Kompaniet memorial exhibition for the late Paolo Venini, who passed away earlier that same year.
Exhibitions
The model was first presented in 1954 at the 27th Venice Biennale.
Literature
Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, "Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986", Skira 2000, p. 105, model illustrated from the Barry Friedman Collection, New York. See also photograph p. 52 from the exhibition at Nordiska Kompaniet 1959.