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Ziusudra vase and Uruinimgina centrepiece, from the 20 Argenti Grandi series
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September 27, 02:20 PM GMT
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4,500 - 6,500 EUR
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Ettore Sottsass
Ziusudra vase and Uruinimgina centrepiece, from the 20 Argenti Grandi series
Designed in the late 1990s, executed in 2002
Ziusudra vase: silver
Uruinimgina centrepiece: silver, burl olive ash veneer and Macassar ebony veneer
Rossi & Arcandi Edition, Vicenza, Italy
Each numbered, signed and dated: 8/8 Ettore Sottsass 2002 with contemporary Italian hallmarks for Vincenza on a leg underside of the Ziusudra vase and on the underside of the Uruinimgina centrepiece
Ziusudra vase: 35 x 35 x 40 cm.; 13 ¾ x 13 ¾ x 15 ¾ in.
Uruinimgina centerpiece: 69 x 24 x 13 cm.; 27 ⅛ x 9 ½ x 5 ⅛ in.
Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. Gallery, Milan, Italy
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002
Private collection, Italy
20 Argenti Grandi, Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. Gallery, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2002
20 Argenti Grandi, Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co, Gallery, Milan, October 2002, for the models
These works are part of the 20 Argenti Grandi series, a collection of twenty silver vases each produced in an edition of eight pieces and one artist proof, designed at the end of the 1990s and named after ancient kings of the Mesopotamia region. All the internal glasses were manufactured by the Cenedese furnace in Murano, Venice. Special commission for the Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery in Milan.
Sotheby's would like to thank Rossi & Arcandi Lab for their assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot.
