Two 'Pulcini' Birds
Two 'Pulcini' Birds
Designer
Alessandro Pianon
(Italian, 1931 - 1984)
Designer
Peter Pelzel
Manufacturer
Vetreria Vistosi
Dateabout 1962
Dimensions7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm)
MediumBlown, colorless and transparent soda-lime glass, with mosaic cane inclusions; steel wire.
ClassificationGlass
Credit LineGift of Charles R. Johnson, Lambertville, Michigan
Object number
2016.244A-B
Not on View
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.
Published ReferencesHeiremans, Marc, 20th Century Murano Glass, Stuttgart, 1996, nn. 209, 211, 212.
McFadden, David Revere, et al., Venetian Glass: The Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu Collection, New York, American Craft Museum, 2001, n. 181.
Dorigato, Attilia, L'Arte del Vetro a Murano, Venezia, Arsenale Editrice, 2002, p. 333.
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Hot Spot: Contemporary Glass from Private Collections, April 15-Sept. 18, 2016.
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
Early to mid-1st century CE
late 9th-10th century CE
Early to mid-1st century CE
Late 1st century BCE to early 1st century CE
2nd century BCE to 1st century CE, possibly later
1st century BCE to 1st century CE
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