FILILLA, A GLASS FRUIT BOWL

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Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, designed 1986
FILILLA, A GLASS FRUIT BOWL
A large footed cube in deep amber with a pale blue bowl, the yellow rim suspending six white hourglass-shaped pendants
34 cm. high
Engraved E. Sottsass per Memphis by Compania Vetraria Muranese

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Lot Essay

For comparison see: Memphis 1981-1988, Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1989, ill. 110
B. Radice, Ettore Sottsass - A Critical Biography, Rizzoli, New York, 1993, p. 201 for an illustration of this model
Hans Höger Ettore Sottsass jun., Wasmuth Verlag, Berlin, 1993, p. p. 6 for a drawing of this model

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