Wright Auction

Perhaps the most beautiful, rarefied and poetic of all Primavera objects, the vase presented here represents Ercole Barovier’s first, and perhaps finest triumph as a designer of 20th century Murano art glass.  

When presented at the Biennale of 1930 Primavera glass was immediately recognized as an icon of late jazz-age style. Featured in numerous period photographs, this particular model is seen by many as the ultimate expression of pre-war Murano art glass; it possesses a lush baroque sensuality expressed in a reduced modernist form. Embellished with rich, oversized dimensional drops executed in blue-black glass applied over a spherical semi-transparent body, the visual impact of the vase conveys both high medieval and modernist sensibilities.