AN EXTREMELY RARE APPLIED MURRHINE GLASS FIGURE

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AN EXTREMELY RARE APPLIED MURRHINE GLASS FIGURE
DESIGNED BY FULVIO BIANCONI FOR VENINI, CIRCA 1950

Modeled as a seated woman, her dress in caramel, pale lavender and white murrhines, with flattened black hat, her entire face composed of an applied murrhine intricately depicting eyes, nose and mouth, with the firm's paper label, marked with number 4868
9in. (23cm.) high, 7in. (18cm.) long

cf. Franco Deboni Le Verre Venini, plates 102, 103; Rossana Bossaglia, I Vetri Di Fulvio Bianconi, plates 47, 48, and 49 for illustrations of variant murrhine figures

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