Pulcino (Little Bird)
Pulcino (Little Bird)
Designer
Alessandro Pianon
(Italian, 1931 - 1984)
Designer
Peter Pelzel
Manufacturer
Vetreria Vistosi
Dateabout 1962
Dimensions7 1/8 in. (18.1 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
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 9th-10th century CE
Third to first century BCE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Early to mid-first century CE
Late first century BCE to early first century CE
Probably mid-first century
Late 2nd to early 3rd century CE
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