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Object NameSquare Bird

Maker Vetreria Vistosi (Founded by Guglielmo Vistosi)

Maker Alessandro Pianon (Italian, 1931-1984)

Made FromGlass, metal wire

Date1962

Place MadeItaly, Venice, Murano

Techniqueblown, applied millefiori, soldered wire

SizeOverall H: 20.3 cm, W: 10.3 cm, L: 11.25 cm

Accession Number85.3.17

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Designs in Miniature: The Story of Mosaic Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionGreen glass with red and blue inclusions; blown, applied millefiori, soldered wire. Square, stylized body of transparent green glass which has been flattened on all six sides forming slightly elongated irregular cube with walls of varying thicknesses, with one side of the top edge pulled to create the suggestion of a beak; lower third of body is decorated with four irregularly spaced rows of intermixed red and blue squared- circle inclusions; two green, white, red and black millefiori have been applied on opposing walls in the upper corner which form the side of the beak; center of base has irregular opening where it has been broken off of the blowpipe and is partially covered by two adjoining colorless prunts; each prunt is inserted with a metal cylinder which is, in turn, inserted with copper wire legs soldered to form flat, connecting wire feet.
Provenance

Source Perrin-Royère-Lajeunesse - 1985-01-02