Vetro a scavo

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Object Name: 
Vase
Title: 
Vetro a scavo
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy, Venice, Murano
Accession Number: 
84.3.38
Dimensions: 
H: 36.5 cm, W: 29 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1950-1960
Primary Description: 
Red, ash gray glass; blown, applied bits, surface films or deposits. Teardrop shape with applied bits; rounded rim; heavy applied figures encircle the vessel and resemble primitive stick figures and a gazelle or antelope; many surfaces coated with a sooty substance in shades of light to dark gray and charcoal black; unsigned but with paper label on base "PAULY & C./Leon 428/".

More Info

Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Fifty-50 Gallery, Source
1984-02-24
Color: 
Red, ash gray
red
Technique: 
blown, applied bits, surface films or deposits

Exhibitions (1)

Venini and the Murano Renaissance: Italian Art Glass of the 1940s and 50s
Venue(s)
Fifty-50 Gallery 1984 through 1984

Publications (3)

Venetian Art Glass: An American collection, 1840-1970 (2004) illustrated, p. 304; BIB# 79981
The Corning Museum of Glass Annual Report 1984 (1985) p. 6; BIB# AI96385
Venini and the Murano Renaissance : Italian Art Glass of the 1940s and 50s (1984) # 53, Foreword; BIB# 23375