Gio Ponti 'Sette colori' beaker for Venini circa 1948

This is a chance to own a special piece of glass, a 1948 design of Gio Ponti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gio_Ponti) one of the great names of  20th Century architecture and design.  Learned Italian scholars amongst our readers will know that Sette Colori means  seven colours.  Heiremans shows a larger vase in this design - the same colour canes in the same order - in Murano Glass: Themes and Variations 1910-1970.  A scan is shown as the last picture.  He says of it:

The innovative aspect of this vase - a simple "a canne" - is to be found in the bold application of colour, to become typical for post-war Murano glass. After the fusing of the canes, the form was not further blown but shaped with tools.

So post-war Murano glass took the Modernist simplicity and added bright, bold colour.

Height: 8 cm (3 inches)
Width: 7 cm
Weight: 65 g
Condition: very light wear to the base, unpolished pontil mark (as is normal for such a delicate piece, where the glass is too thin to grind and polish out the mark where the pontil iron was detached from the glass), some less than 0.5mm unintended bubbles, a few light small scratches to the exterior (longest 2mm)

Our Reference: 2529

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