Ettore Sottsass
Artaxerses and Xerses vases, from the 20 Argenti Grandi series
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September 27, 02:19 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Ettore Sottsass
Artaxerses and Xerses vases, from 20 Argenti Grandi series
Designed in the late 1990s, executed in 2002
Each: silver and glass
Each numbered, signed and dated : Artaxerses vase 2/8 Ettore Sottsass 2002 and Xerses vase 8/8 Ettore Sottsass 2002 with contemporary Italian hallmarks for Vincenza on a leg underside
Rossi & Arcandi edition, Vicenza, Italy
Artaxerses vase: 28 x 28 x 30,5 cm.; 11 x 11 x 12 in.
Xerses vase: 25 x 25 x 29,5 cm.; 9 ⅞ x 9 ⅞ x 11 ⅝ in.
Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery, Milan
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002
Private collection, Italy
20 Argenti Grandi, Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery, Milan, October 2002, for the model
20 Argenti Grandi, Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery, exhibition catalogue, Milan, 2002
These vases are part of the 20 Argenti Grandi series, a collection of twenty silver vases each produced in an edition of eight pieces and one artist proof, designed at the end of the 1990s and named after ancient kings of the Mesopotamia region. All the internal glasses were manufactured by the Cenedese furnace in Murano, Venice. Special commission for the Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery in Milan.
Sotheby's would like to thank Rossi & Arcandi Lab for their assistance in the cataloguing of the present lot.
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