Marmissimi

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Object Name: 
Horse
Title: 
Marmissimi
Maker(s): 
Place Made: 
Italy
Accession Number: 
87.3.24
Dimensions: 
H: 27.5 cm, L: 30.3 cm, W: 9.4 cm
Location: 
Not on Display
Date: 
1987
Credit Line: 
Gift of Dr. Angelo Barovier
Primary Description: 
Translucent white with orange-red enamels cased in colorless glass; blown, manipulated with hot applications. Stylized figure of speckled horse in form of "S" curve; broadly modeled upturned head, ears and mane formed of hot applications of opaque black; two straight front legs of black; down-turned end of "S" forms conflated rear legs and tail, inscribed on underside: "barovier/&toso/murano/tz/87", paper label: "Barovier & Toso/Murano/Venezia/25798/Made in Italy".

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Department: 
Postwar and Contemporary
Provenance: 
Barovier, Angelo (Italian, b. 1927), Source
Color: 
Translucent white w/enamels
Technique: 
blown, manipulated with hot applications