Ettore Sottsass
Sennacherib and Syrus vases, from the 20 Argenti Grandi series
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September 27, 02:18 PM GMT
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 EUR
Lot Details
Description
Ettore Sottsass
Sennacherib and Syrus vases, from the 20 Argenti Grandi series
Designed in the late 1990s, executed in 2002
Sennacherib vase: silver and painted wood
Syrus vase: silver, painted wood and glass
Each numbered, signed and dated 8/8 Ettore Sottsass 2002 with contemporary Italian hallmarks for Vincenza on the cone silver bottom of the Syrus vase and on the lowest silver circle of the Sennacherib vase
Rossi & Arcandi edition, Vicenza, Italy
Sennacherib vase: 31 x 31 x 52 cm.; 12 ¼ x 12 ¼ x 20 ½ in.
Syrus vase: 20 x 20 x 31 cm.; 7 ⅞ x 7 ⅞ x 12 ¼ in.
Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi gallery & Co., Milan, Italy
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002
Private collection, Italy
20 Argenti Grandi, Paolo Curti and Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. gallery, exhibition catalogue, Milan, October 2002, for the models
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.
