Napoleone Martinuzzi - Design Masters New York Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Don Adolfo di Vinci, Castello Vinci, Casteano, Sicily, Italy
    Thence by descent to Mr. and Mrs. Grasselli

  • Literature

    Anna Venini Diaz de Santillana, Venini Catalogue Raisonné 1921-1986, Milan, 2000, p. 80, fig. 24 for a similar example
    Marino Barovier, Napoleone Martinuzzi Venini 1925-1931, exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 2013, p. 400 for a similar example and a 1:10 scale drawing of the model

PROPERTY FROM A NOBLE ITALIAN FAMILY

440

Important sixteen-armed chandelier, model no. 2069, commissioned by Don Adolfo di Vinci for Castello Vinci, Casteano, Sicily

circa 1925
Colored glass, metal.
93 1/2 in. (237.5 cm) drop, 60 1/4 in. (153 cm) diameter
Produced by Venini, Italy. Each of the four metal fixtures impressed with VETRI SOFFIATI MURANESI VENINI & C. DEFAL. & L. BUCELLA BREVETTATO MURANO and impressed with consecutive numbers to each fitting, largest fixture impressed further with the model no. 2069. There are two paper inventory labels each numbered AR-10925 and one wax seal.

Estimate
$60,000 - 80,000 

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale, New York
mroddy@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1266

Design Masters

New York 17 December 2013 6pm