Details
A 'VETRO A FILE' BOTTLE AND STOPPER
DESIGNED BY PAOLO VENINI FOR VENINI, CIRCA 1950
The rounded triangular bottle with a short cylindrical neck, olive green cased glass internally decorated with gray veining inlaid with purple raffia, with a mushroom-shaped stopper of green transparent glass, acid-stamped Venini Murano ITALIA, and with the firm's paper label--12in. (30.5cm.) high
DESIGNED BY PAOLO VENINI FOR VENINI, CIRCA 1950
The rounded triangular bottle with a short cylindrical neck, olive green cased glass internally decorated with gray veining inlaid with purple raffia, with a mushroom-shaped stopper of green transparent glass, acid-stamped Venini Murano ITALIA, and with the firm's paper label--12in. (30.5cm.) high
Provenance
The Robert Mapplethorpe Collection, Christie's New York, October 31, 1989, lot 142A