bottle

Object NameA Fasce Orizzontali (Horizontal Stripes) Bottle with Stopper

Maker Venini Glassworks

Maker Fulvio Bianconi (Italian, 1915-1996)

Made FromGlass

Dateabout 1951-1956

Place MadeItaly, Venice, Murano

TechniqueMold-blown, with applied decoration

SizeOverall H: 46.5 cm

Accession Number58.3.6

Curatorial Area(s)

Postwar and Contemporary

Exhibitions

Venini Glass

Decades in Glass: The 50's

Glass 1959: A Special Exhibition of International Contemporary Glass

Not On View

Physical DescriptionBlue-green, red, and opaque white glass; mold-blown and hot-worked. Bottle-shaped body with flaring neck and spherical stopper; transparent blue-green body is wrapped with two ribbonlike horizontal stripes of opaque white overlaid with transparent red glass. Another horizontal stripe circles the stopper. Exhibited in "Glass 1959." Base and pontil are ground. No signature.
Provenance