On display
Image of Gallery in South Kensington

Patchwork

Vase
1950 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Vase, Italy, Venice (Murano), designed by Fulvio Bianconi, for Venini & C., 1950-1951

Object details

Categories
Object type
Titles
  • Patchwork (manufacturer's title)
  • Pezzato (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Fused coloured glass squares
Brief description
Vase, Italy, Venice (Murano), designed by Fulvio Bianconi, for Venini & C., 1950-1951
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.0cm
  • Maximum width: 15.3cm
Style
Gallery label
The first 'Pezzato' designs were made in 1950 and were shown at the Galleria del Naviglio, Milan as part of the 1951 Triennale. They were shown in the Venice Biennale 1952. In essence, the technique is as invented in the Hellenistic period (see Bay 2), in which pieces (in this case squares) of coloured glass are laid together on a metal sheet, heated and fused. With the 'Pezzato' series these squares are then rolled into a cylinder, picked up on the blowing iron, reheated and worked into the designed shape. Fulvio Bianconi (b.1915) studied in Venice and is a painter, graphic artist and caricaturist as well as a trained glass decorator. These skills are combined in the lightness of touch and sense of comedy which he brought so successfully to his designs for Venini.
Bibliographic reference
Mentasti, Rosa Barovier: Venetian Glass 1890-1990, Venice 1992, p110
Other number
9645 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Accession number
C.150-1991

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
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