In 1934, Maurice Marinot exhibited at the 19th Venice Biennale in the Decorative Arts section. With the support of his publisher Adrien-Aurélien Hébrard, he presented six models — numbers 50 to 55 in the catalogue.

This 1933 flask belongs to that moment of full artistic affirmation.

Here, the full mastery of his hot modeling technique unfolds.

At the neck, colored bubbles are trapped within the thickness of the glass. They appear to fall like rain inside the vessel, as if the material were still molten. Marinot suspends movement itself.

The material is shaped while still hot, using metal and wooden tools that he often crafted himself. The gesture appears free, almost instinctive — yet it is executed with absolute precision. The lines are supple, nearly calligraphic, and yet taut, vibrant.

For Marinot, form emerges from a struggle with matter.

He does not merely blow glass — he models it, sculpts it, compels it.

A masterful balance between fluidity and strength.

Description :

Elegant bottle in thick translucent glass, hot-molded with a pear-shaped body, delicately animated with fine silver-gray bubbles highlighting the black glass neck. It is topped with a small spherical stopper in bubbled glass.

Original stopper.

Handwritten signature “marinot” engraved on the back of the base.