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V0128

Large glass depicting a hunt

Ref Num.: V0128

Details

Date: ca. 1926

Typology: Enamelled glass

Technique: Enamelled glass

Dimensions: –

Signed: “Nogués” / “Crespo”

Location

Barcelona, Antoni Sala collection

Description

Scene depicting five bird hunters accompanied by two dogs in the forest. Large, bell-shaped glass. One-off piece. There is a similar one in the Cèlia Crespo collection with slight variations. This one was the first in the series and became misshapen during firing. Nogués destroyed all the defective pieces but Conxa Crespo wanted to salvage this one because it had taken such a lot of effort to make. Nogués agreed and broke it on one side on the express condition that the piece would never leave the Crespo’s house. When Nogués remade it, he changed the frieze on the base for floral motifs. Unfortunately, this old black and white photograph is the only surviving record of the glass. Image rights: Dani Rovira.

Provenance

Exhibitions

Galeries Laietanes, 13th March 1926

Bibliography

Cecília Vidal i Maynou, Xavier Nogués i els vidres esmaltats al foc, doctoral thesis, Barcelona University, Barcelona, 1989, p. 372.

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