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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