Numeri (Numbers) Plate, 1977

Object Name: 
Numeri (Numbers) Plate, 1977

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Object Name: 
Numeri (Numbers) Plate, 1977
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
78.3.66
Dimensions: 
Overall H: 3.5 cm, Diam (max): 27.3 cm
Location: 
On Display
Date: 
1977
Web Description: 
Laura de Santillana is the daughter of Ludovico Diaz de Santillana (Italian, 1931–1989), formerly a director of Venini, and the grandaughter of its founder, Paolo Venini (Italian, 1895–1959). She and her brother, Alessandro Diaz de Santillana (Italian, b. France, 1959), made several popular designs for the family’s glassworks.

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Venini Glassworks, Source
1976
to
1978-12-28
Category: 
Studio Glass
Color: 
multicolored
colorless
Technique: 
glassblowing
fusing
Material: 
glass
Inscription: 
venini italia 1088/74
signature
: 
on base
Copyright: 
© Laura de Santilliana

Description

Primary Description: 
Numeri (Numbers) Plate, 1977. Colorless, amber, green, olive green, turquoise, blue, and purple/black glass, fused and blown. Fused murrine of numbers 1 to 10, blown.

Exhibitions (3)

Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America
Venue(s)
Carnegie Museum of Art 2007-05-12 through 2007-09-16
Venini Glass
Venue(s)
Museo Franz Mayer Arts Decorativas en Mexico 2004-07-01 through 2004-10-01
 
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey
Venue(s)
Corning Museum of Glass 1979 through 1979
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Renwick Gallery
Toledo Museum of Art

Publications (3)

Contemporary Glass Vessels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass (2015) illustrated, p. 33, 80-81 (fig. 66, plate 17); BIB# 149403
Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America (2007) illustrated, p. 48, Plate 5; BIB# 101488
New Glass: A Worldwide Survey (1979) illustrated, p. 196, #207; BIB# 20603