'Mezzaluna Murrine' Vase

Model 3670. Lattimo glass. Etched manufacturer's marks to the underside. Provenance: Most likely purchased at NK Nordiska Kompaniet memorial exhibition for Paolo Venini, Stockholm, November 1959. Exhibitions: The model was first presented in 1954 at the 27th Venice Biennale. Literature: A. Venini Diaz de Santillana, 'Venini: Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986', Milan, 2000, p.105, p. 52, (image of exhibition at NK in 1959). Marino Barovier, Carla Sonego, eds, 'Paolo Venini and His Furnace', exh. cat., Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, 2016, pp171, 174-175 and 183.