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Ettore Sottsass

Sol bowl, Alcor and Posifi la vases

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse

Lot Closed

November 8, 01:55 PM GMT

Estimate

4,500 - 6,500 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Ettore Sosttass (1917-2007)


Sol bowl

Designed in 1982

Blown and applied glass

Inscribed

E. Sottsass per Memphis Milano on the edge of the base

Memphis edition, Milan, Italy

25.5 x 31 x 29.5 cm.; 10 x 12¼ x 11⅝ in.


Alcor vase

Designed in 1983

Blown and applied glass

Inscribed

E. Sottsass per Memphis Milano on the edge of the base

Memphis edition, Milan, Italy

51.5 x 17.5 x 17.5 cm.; 20¼ x 6⅞ x 6⅞ in.


Pasifila vase

Designed in 1986

Blown glass

Inscribed

E. Sottsass per Memphis Milano on the edge of the base

Memphis edition, Milan, Italy

46.7 x 20.3 x 20.3 cm.; 18⅜ x 8 x 8 in.

Please note that this lot should have a W symbol. This will be sent to Sotheby's Greenford Park Fine Arts Storage Facility immediately after the sale.

Galleria Modernariato Giovanni Paganoni, Milan, Italy

Acquired from the above by the current owner in the early 2010s

Private collection, United Kingdom

Marino Barovier, Bruno Bischofberger and Milco Carboni, SOTTSASS Glass Works, Dublin, 1998, pp. 25-26, 42

Ronald T. Labaco, Ettore Sottsass: Architect and Designer, London, 2006, p. 109 for the Pasifila vase

Luca Massimo Barbero, Ettore Sottsass: The Glass, Milan, 2018, pp. 18, 24, 196-197