Live Auction 3474BARRY FRIEDMAN: THE ECLECTIC EYE Italian Glass
NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI
Lot 319

NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI

AN IMPORTANT PULEGOSO VASE, MODEL 3220, CIRCA 1928

Closed27 March 2014

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USD 50,000

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NAPOLEONE MARTINUZZI (1892-1977) FOR VENINI
AN IMPORTANT PULEGOSO VASE, MODEL 3220, CIRCA 1928
blown bubble glass with applied details
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
with pre-war two-lined acid-etched mark Venini Murano

Private collection, Italy.

Specialist note

cf. M. Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi Venini 1925-1931, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2013, p. 208 for the design, a related example and a period photograph of a similar vase on exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1929.