Silver Centerpiece

Murano glass centerpiece designed and produced by Alfredo Barbini in 1970. Signed and with original labels. Biography Alfredo Barbini (1912-2007) one of the greatest Murano glas...

Glass centerpiece designed by Alfredo Barbini for Barbini, 1970s. Signed. Biography Alfredo Barbini was an Italian glass artist and designer known for his sculptures rendered in his...

Casket sculpture model Sasso designed and produced by Giorgio Vigna. In copper, signature and date on the inner edge . Biography Giorgio Vigna was born in Verona in 1955 and artistically formed among his hometown, Venice, Rome and Milan. He is an artist who, at the boundary between reality and imagination, creating natural forms capable of manifesting primary and primordial aspects. Adventures of earth and water, fire and wind where combines natural and artificial, poor and precious. Vigna moves on the border between the real and the imaginary, between what is and what appears. His works, from sculptures to jewelry, the works on paper or the site specific installations, reflect the breadth and depth of his constant research. Using various materials such as glass, metals and paper, treated always new and surprising mode. Vigna explores and seeks them to reveal hidden possibilities.The forms are the primary expression of the elements he works with. Strong and natural, universal and timeless, full of symbolic meanings. In 2003 Giorgio Vigna created the site specific installation La Radura for Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu which started the Olnick Spanu Art Program. In 2013 the Museum of Castelvecchio in Verona hosted the exhibition Stati Naturali, for which Giorgio Vigna has created for the fountain of Carlo Scarpa the permanent installation in glass Acquaria, donated to Verona Municipality. In 2017 he has created for the Galleria dell’Accademia in Venice the work Fuochi di Rugiada, made by Vetreria VENINI. Since 2018 he has been called to be part of the Scientific Committee of Le Stanze del Vetro, a project of the Giorgio Cini Foundation with the support of Pentagram Stiftung. In 2022 he donated his thirty-year archive of drawings and sketches linked to his experience with the materia of glass to the Giorgio Cini Foundation onlus. In June 2023 it inaugurated the solo exhibition Analogie at the Eremitani Museum in Padua, the natural continuation of the journey begun in 2022 with the Sassi exhibition at the Oratorio di San Rocco in Padua. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in Argentina, Austria...

Ceramic (Grés) centerpiece designed and produced by Carlo Zauli in 1970. Unique piece. Signed. Biography: Carlo Zauli (Faenza, 1926-2002) is one of the great names in post-war Italian sculpture. Like other masters of previous generations, from Martini to Fontana and Leoncillo, his technical training was in the field of ceramic art. Zauli moved away from its formal principles in the sixties, however, when his work moved towards a complex form of sculptural research of great expressive richness. The shift from informal territories towards a reasoning about geometrical forms as rhetorical structures brought him into the heart of the sculptural debate of those years. The solo exhibition at the Montenapoleone Gallery of Milan in 1957 fitted in perfectly with other works that were part of a trend towards an integration of the arts (frieze for the palace in Baghdad, 1958; frieze for the government printing office...

Nice round silver centrepiece embossed. Nice piece in good conditions but with tape stains.

Very nice silver centerpiece, with nice decoration. Tape stains.

Silver vintage centerpiece is a precious decorative object realized in the 20th century. A very elegant silver circular centerpiece with emboss...

Silver centerpiece is a precious decorative object realized in the mid-20th century. A very elegant silver centerpiece with wavy edges. Supported by a circular base.