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Napoleone Martinuzzi, Alfredo Barbini

(Murano 1892 - Venezia 1977 & 0)

Duck figure model no. 2480, 1926 - 1930 circa

Estimate

€ 1.500 - 2.000

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€ 1.200

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33,5 x 14 x 19 cm

Duck figure model no. 2480 from the Venini & C. blue catalogue, coral-colored glass paste with light iridescence

designed in 1926 - 1930 circa
executed in 1970 circa
glass paste
engraved A. BARBINI to the underside
Vetreria Alfredo Barbini edition, Murano, Italy

Provenance

From a distinguished private collection, Venice, Italy

Exhibition

XVI Biennale d'Arte Internazionale, Venice, 1928, exhibition catalogue

Literature

Venini, original catalogue, Catalogo Blu, foglio 23, model no. 2480, for the modelDomus, February 1929, p. 31, per il modello M. Barovier, A. Dorigato, Il Bestiario di Murano, Canal & Stamperia, 1996, p. 15, per il modello  M. Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi Venini 1925-1931, Skira, 2013, p. 246, per il modello 
Sotheby's catalogue, Vetri di Murano: La Collezione Storica Pauly, 2005, lots 253, for the model

Specialist Notes

At the request of C.V.M. Pauly &.C in the early 1970s, Alfredo Barbini and Napoleone Martinuzzi produced a series of items previously designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi in the early 1930s. Unlike those previously produced, these glasses bear the signature of Barbini or the signature of Barbini and Martinuzzi together

Condition report

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