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Carlo Scarpa for MVM Cappellin
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 GBP
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Description
- A large `transparenti' vase
- engraved, `M V M Cappellin, Murano'
- 46cm.;
- 18in.
the straw coloured ground decorated with three coral coloured leafy fronds beneath coral rim
Catalogue Note
A vase of similar form and with comparable decoration was exhibited, III Mostra Internazionale delle Arti Decorative, Monza, 1927'. For a contemporary photograph showing this vase, see: Marino Barovier, Carlo Scarpa, I Vetri di un Architetto, Milan, 1997, p.284, pl.8.
Further examples are illustrated, op. cit. pp. 57 and 192.