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Thanks to the qualitative excellence , the high artistic content and the intrinsic manufacturing value of each piece , Venini glasses are beaten at important auctions reaching record figures : it belongs to Venini , in fact , the highest paid Murano glass work in history which with “ La Sentinella di Venezia ” in 1962 reached 737 thousand dollars .
The creations signed by Venini have become part of the permanent collections of museums of the reach of the Metropolitan Museum and the MOMA in New York , the Cartier Foundation in Paris , the Victoria and Albert Museum in London . The Venini museum , collecting 45,000 drawings , 10,000 period photos and 4,000 works of art , represents the most precious historical archive of modern and contemporary artistic glassware .