Sold for:
$158,750
$158,750
Tomaso Buzzi
rare and monumental a Reticello vase
Venini Italy, 1932-33 reticello glass with white pasta di vetro lip, alternating glass canes and mercury glass interior 12¼ dia x 12¼ h in (31 x 31 cm)
result: $158,750
Examples of this technique were made for the Triennale of 1933.
This is the only known surviving example.
provenance: Purchased in the early 1970s from the Venini Showroom, San Marco, Italy | Collection of B. Carraro, Italy
literature: Tomaso Buzzi at Venini , Barovier, pg. 349 illustrates similar example
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2015-12-08
