ID: 700008808 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008808	Record Type: Movable Work

Prototype for Sirio (vase; Designed by Ettore Sottsass (Austrian, 1917-2007), Manufactu...; 1982; Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, ...; 1987.234)

Note: Protype for “Sirio vase,” 1982. Designed by Ettore Sottsass. Memphis Design Group, Italy, Milan. Clear pink flute on short stem rising from a light yellow disc on a light blue flattened globe. Inverted cone base of clear glass with brown dashes. Red curvilinear handles extend from yellow disc to middle of flute.

Titles:

Prototype for Sirio (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

vase [300132254] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Containers (hierarchy name), containers (receptacles), <containers by form>, vessels (containers))

prototype (object genre) [300166391]

..... (Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications), <object genres by function>)

Classifications:

glass works (preferred)

Contemporary art

Creation Date: 1982

Creator Display:

Designed by Ettore Sottsass (Austrian, 1917-2007), Manufactured by Memphis (Italian (Milan)) [preferred,VP]

designer Sottass, Ettore, Jr. (Italian furniture designer, born 1917 in Austria) [500034103]

maker Memphis (International group of designers, founded 1980) [500125093]

Locations:

Current: Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States) [500305147] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1987.234

Credit Line: The John Axelrod Collection

Other: Creation: Milano [7005903] (Geographic)

Display Materials: glass

	glass (material) [300010797]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

Dimensions: unavailable

General Subject:

utilitarian objects (preferred)

Marks: unmarked

Related Works:

	prototype for .... Sirio Vase [700008807]
	..........vase; Maker: Toso Vetri d'Arte, 1981-1990. Designed by Ettore Sott...; 1982; Brooklyn Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, Unite...; 1998.186

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Prototype for Sirio	........ [VP]
	........ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)