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Pietro Chiesa

Ceiling Light

Guaranteed Property

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Pietro Chiesa

1892-1948


Ceiling Light

circa 1937

model no. 0566

produced by Fontana Arte, Milan

glass, opaque glass, nickel-plated brass

drop 33 ⅛ in.; diameter 11 ⅜ in.

84.1 cm; 28.9 cm

Private Collection, Milan;

Phillips, London, April 26, 2018, lot 10;

Where acquired by the present collector.

"Documenti Della Produzione Italiana," Domus, no. 131, November 1938, p. 64

Laura Falconi, Fontana Arte: Una Storia Transparente, Milan, 1998, p. 205, no. 54

Franco Deboni, Fontana Arte: Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Max Ingrand, Turin, 2007, no. 23 (for a related example)