An iconic and rare Italian Mid-Century Modern art glass "Pulcino" bird designed by, Alessandro Pianon for Vetreria Vistosi. The bird is decorated with murrine decoration throughout on the lower body, with two tails, further decorated with applied murrine eyes sitting on its original copper wire leg against a blue - gray background. circa 1963
Measurements:
height: 10.5 in. x length: 3.5 in. x width: 6 in.
Notes:
Similar examples are exhibited:
The museum Of fine arts Houston.
Eretz Israel museum, Tel Aviv.
Corning Museum of Glass; Corning, NY.
Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, OH.
Literature:
"20th century Murano glass," by, Heiremans, fig. 210.
"Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu collection," Olnick and Spanu, pg. 181.
Domus (Milan), no. 405, August 1963, pp. 153-54.
"Murano Glass: 1945-1970," by, Marc Herremans; Antwerp, 1989, figs. 230-31.