113: CARLO SCARPA, Bollicine perfume bottles, model 651 < Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art, 5 June 2019 < Auctions

Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art

5 June 2019

Important Design Including Post War + Contemporary Art

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Carlo Scarpa
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Bollicine perfume bottles, model 651

Venini
Italy, 1932-33
bollicine glass with gold leaf 4¾ h × 4 dia in (12 × 10 cm)

estimate: $3,000–5,000

result: $3,500

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Two-line acid stamp to underside ‘Venini Murano’.
provenance: Private Collection, New York
literature: Carlo Scarpa: Venini 1932-1947, Barovier, pg. 118 illustrates model Carlo Scarpa: I Vetri di un Architetto, Barovier, pg. 204, no. 18 illustrates variation

Along with vases, bowls and lighting, Carlo Scarpa designed a wide variety of other objects for Venini. In keeping with Scarpa’s interest in ancient glass and glassmaking, perfume, or scent bottles, have a long history, and fine examples were made by the Romans, Phoenicians, Egyptians and Mesopotamians. Scarpa was well aware of this tradition and designed scent bottles for Venini which are subtle, intimate, and express a quiet reference to the ancient world.