Important Italian Glass 
25 January 2018
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Important Italian Glass 
Carlo Scarpa, Cinesi vase, model 3578 - Image 1 of 2
Carlo Scarpa, Cinesi vase, model 3578 - Image 2 of 2
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Carlo Scarpa

Cinesi vase, model 3578

Venini
Italy, c. 1936
ochre incamiciato glass 10½ h × 5 dia in (27 × 13 cm)
estimate: $8,000–10,000
result: $10,000
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Signed with three-line acid stamp to underside: [Venini Murano Italia].
provenance: Private Collection, New York
literature: Carlo Scarpa: Venini 1932-1947, Barovier, pg. 276 illustrates model

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Sophisticated Forms

Creating an Aesthetic Vocabulary at Venini

Carlo Scarpa’s genius as a designer of Murano glass has been well documented. In recent years, comprehensive exhibitions of his work for Venini have taken place at the Stanze del Vetro in Venice and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Scarpa’s ability to design reduced modernist vessels with forms inspired by the ancient Chinese brought Murano glass to a new level of artistic sophistication. His use of these sober, powerful forms, combined with new interpretations of age-old Murano techniques, created an aesthetic vocabulary for glass-as-art which still resonates with artists, art critics and collectors today.

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