Impressive Murano Glass Cobra Sculpture by Loredano Rosin

This Cobra sculpture was created and made by the famous Italian glass artist Loredano Rosin in his workshop in Murano, Venice, Italy in the 1980s.
The black Murano glass cobra holds a clear Murano glass diamond.
It is an impressive sculpture in very good condition, signed by the artist.

Loredano Rosin was an Italian sculptor best known for his traditional use of Murano glass to depict stylized figures and animals. Rosin worked as a master glass blower for Salviati & Company, where he notably collaborated with artists such as Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall in realizing their vision in glass. Born in 1936 in Venice, Italy, he studied with Romano Zanelli and Cocui Saor as a teenager before establishing his own studio. Today, his work is in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others. The artist died in 1992 in Venice, Italy.