Pulcino (Little BIrd)
Designer: Alessandro Pianon (Italian, 1931 - 1984)
Designer: Peter Pelzel
Manufacturer: Vetreria Vistosi
Date: about 1962
Dimensions:
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
Medium: Blown, colorless and transparent soda-lime glass, with mosaic cane inclusions; steel wire.
Classification: Glass
Credit Line: Gift of Charles R. Johnson, Lambertville, Michigan
Object number: 2016.244B
DescriptionThe two stylized birds are blown and tooled of transparent blue glass with gilded copper wire feet and legs. One bird is of drop shape, its beak pointing up, wings tooled backwards, with a translucent band of mosaic cane sections around its lower body and opaque mosaic cane eyes. The second bird is of horizontal pod shape, its back flattened on top and encircled around its belly with a thin orange trail, and opaque mosaic cane sections as eyes.
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