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LASS FROM ITALYItalian glass always has more flair, a
brighter colour, an extra design feature or an unexpected twist. Most of the many Italian glass works are to be found in Murano - but there are other centres too (such as Florence, Milano, Napoli)|
ç Leaf shaped Murano dish in Annagrün with flecks of Aventurine |
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ç Mosaic dish made by Aureliano Toso around 1957; the design is attributed to Dino Martens |
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ç Small blue dish with an adventurine spiral, made by Artisti Barovier around 1918; the design is attributed to Wolfgang von Wersin |
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ç blue vase with tiny bubbles |
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ç I'm not quite sure if this is Italian or not. Maybe it isn't. |
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ç Jug in green bottle glass made in the fifties by either Vetreria Etrusca or by Toso Bagnoli of Empoli (Firenze). |
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ç Blue vase with folded foot; attributed to Cappelin/Venini in the late twenties |
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ç Red orange jug of granite glass |
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ç leaf shaped dish with green threads |
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ç tall and colourful glass from the sixties |
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ç Satinated black glass cased over white: attributed to Toso, fifties |
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ç Red and blue enamel colours on pink opaline |
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ç shell shaped dish in spiralling pink, white and amethyst |
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ç Amethyst glass cased with transparent blue |
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ç Murrine glass |
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ç Inverted Opalina: white over blue. A Nason special, 1957 |
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ç Tall triangular bottle vase with murrines and various colours; Vetro Pittorico, design attributed to Dino Martens around 1957 |
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ç Pink Pulegoso (foamed) glass |
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ç Heart shaped crystal vase looks very scandinavian but was made by Salviati at the end of the 20th century. |
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ç Small Salviati vase from the seventies |
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ç Iridescent miniature Barovier vase. |
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ç Satinated ewer of white and lemon coloured opalina - provokes shrieks of horror from some and ooohs and aaahs from others. |
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ç Toso ashtray |
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ç Venini vase in Incalmo technique |
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ç Birds may have been made by Cenedese |
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