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Alessandro Pianon

"Pulcino"

Lot Closed

April 1, 03:42 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000 - 5,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Alessandro Pianon

b. 1930

"Pulcino"


circa 1961

produced by Vistosi, Italy

blown glass, copper

9 ⅝ in. (24.4 cm) high

Private Collection, Jacksonville, 1966
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2020
Rosa Barovier Mentasti, Venetian Glass 1890-1990, Verona, 1992, p. 133
Marina Barovier and Attilia Dorigato, eds., Animals in Glass: A Murano Bestiary, exh. cat., Palazzo Ducale, Venice, June-October 1996, p. 149 (for a related model in the "Pulcini" series)
Madeleine Marsh, Miller's Collecting the 1960s, London, 1999, p. 61 (for a related model in the "Pulcini" series)
Susan Sacks, Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, New York, 2000, fig. 143
Judith Miller, Sixties Style, New York, 2006, p. 116 (for related models in the "Pulcini" series)
Judith Miller, 20th Century Design: The Definitive Illustrated Sourcebook, New York, 2009, p. 197 (for a related model in the "Pulcini" series)