Important Italian Glass 
13 June 2015
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Important Italian Glass 
Flavio Poli and Alfredo Barbini, rare and monumental Incamiciato vase, model Z1028 - Image 1 of 4
Flavio Poli and Alfredo Barbini, rare and monumental Incamiciato vase, model Z1028 - Image 2 of 4
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Flavio Poli and Alfredo Barbini, rare and monumental Incamiciato vase, model Z1028 - Image 4 of 4
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Flavio Poli and Alfredo Barbini

rare and monumental Incamiciato vase, model Z1028

Barovier Seguso Ferro
Italy, 1936
incamiciato glass with gold leaf and applied decoration 16¾ h × 8½ w × 8 d in (43 × 22 × 20 cm)
estimate: $15,000–20,000
result: $45,000
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This work is documented in the Seguso Archives. Reference courtesy of Marc Heiremans.
literature: Venetian Art Glass: An American Collection 1840-1970, Barovier, pg. 261 illustrates this example

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Incamiciato

This rare Incamiciato vase is the direct product of the collaboration between four major personages: Napoleone Martinuzzi, Flavio Poli, Archimede Seguso and Alfredo Barbini.

The basic form of this vase was first designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi during his tenure as artistic director at Venini in the late 1920s. By the mid-1930s, Martinuzzi’s own company, Zecchin-Martinuzzi, had merged with the newly founded Barovier Seguso Ferro where Flavio Poli served as artistic director. During this period Poli tastefully re-interpreted many of Martinuzzi’s designs, and this vase is an exceptionally fine example of his work. Finally, Poli’s design was realized with the aid of two virtuoso master blowers working in concert—Archimede Seguso and Alfredo Barbini, both of whom would go on to own and operate their own successful glassworks.

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