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Ercole Barovier

"A Spirale" Vase

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Ercole Barovier

1889-1974


"A Spirale" Vase

circa 1940

produced by Barovier & Torso, Murano, Italy

hand-blown glass internally decorated with aventurine inclusions

height 10 ⅜ in.; 26.4 cm

Private Collection, France;

Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection, United Kingdom;

Bonhams New York, Important Italian Glass: The Paul Gresswell-Wilkins Collection, October 7, 2021, lot 105;

Where acquired by the present collector.

Marina Barovier, Rosa Mentasti and Attilia Dorigato, Il Vetro di Murano alle Biennali 1895-1972, Milan, 1995, p. 46 (for an archival photograph of the model at the XXII Biennale d’Arte, Venice, 1940)

Franco Deboni, Murano '900, Milan, 1996, p. 120 (for a related example)

This model was first presented at the XXII Biennale d’Arte, Venice, 1940.