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Wine glass

Designer Karl Bertsch (Austrian, 1895 - 1974)

Manufacturer Maestri Vetrai Muranesi Cappellin & C. (M.V.M. Cappellin & C.) (Italian, 1925-1932)

Place of OriginItaly, Venice

Date1929-1931

DimensionsH: 3 1/4 in. (8.3 cm); Diam: 2 in. (5.1 cm)

MediumSoda-lime glass; blown, applied knop, foot, and decoration.

ClassificationGlass

Credit LineGift of Mary, Sarah, and Myra La Rocque and Sylvia Sherman Plesco in memory of George Courtright Greener

Object number

2011.76

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DescriptionTransparent glass with pink tinge; translucent green knop, pedestal foot with foot rim folded under, green strip around rim.

Comparative ReferencesSee also Barovier, Marino, Vittorio Zecchin 1878-1947 pittura, vetro, arti decorative, Venice, 2002. Cf. Barovier, Marino, Carlo Scarpa: Glass of an Architect, Milan: Skira 1999. Cf. Heiremans, Marc, Art Glass from Murano/Glas-Kunst Aus Murano, Stuttgart: Arnoldsche 1993. Cf. Jeanne Schinto, "'Miss Edgerton's Ye Colonial Shoppe' or Women in the Trade," Maine Antique Digest, published online 6/11/2008. Cf. Von Zezschwitz Art and Design, "Karl Bertsch," auction 48, 10/12/2008, lot 414: "Rotweinglas, 1929." Cf. Von Zezschwitz Art and Design, "Italian Design - Murano Glass," 12/9/2010, lot 368: "M.V.M. Cappellin & C., Murano, Gläsersatz, 1929."