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Object NameAquatic Bird

Maker Venini Glassworks

Maker Fulvio Bianconi (Italian, 1915-1996)

Maker Paolo Venini (Italian, 1895-1959)

Made FromGlass

Date1954

Place MadeItaly, Venice, Murano

SizeOverall H: 29 cm

Accession Number58.3.16

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Not On View

Physical DescriptionColorless, white, and black glass, blown and hot-worked. The bird's body is blown of colorless glass with "combed" or "fenicio" transparent white cane decoration with two stripes of transparent black down the back; the beak, feet, and tail are hot-worked applications in opaque white glass; the eyes are opaque black glass; the crest feathers are applied in opaque white and black glass; the bird stands on a hot-worked colorless base with embedded white canes; rough pontil. No signature.
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