GLASS FROM ITALY

Italian 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

ç Mosaic dish made by Aureliano Toso around 1957; the design is attributed to Dino Martens

ç Small blue dish with an adventurine spiral, made by Artisti Barovier around 1918; the design is attributed to Wolfgang von Wersin

ç blue vase with tiny bubbles

ç I'm not quite sure if this is Italian or not. Maybe it isn't.

ç Jug in green bottle glass made in the fifties by either Vetreria Etrusca or by Toso Bagnoli of Empoli (Firenze).

ç Blue vase with folded foot; attributed to Cappelin/Venini in the late twenties

ç Red orange jug of granite glass

ç leaf shaped dish with green threads

ç tall and colourful glass from the sixties

ç Satinated black glass cased over white: attributed to Toso, fifties

ç Red and blue enamel colours on pink opaline

ç shell shaped dish in spiralling pink, white and amethyst

ç Amethyst glass cased with transparent blue

ç Murrine glass

ç Inverted Opalina: white over blue. A Nason special, 1957

ç Tall triangular bottle vase with murrines and various colours; Vetro Pittorico, design attributed to Dino Martens around 1957

ç Pink Pulegoso (foamed) glass

ç Heart shaped crystal vase looks very scandinavian but was made by Salviati at the end of the 20th century.

ç Small Salviati vase from the seventies

ç Iridescent miniature Barovier vase.

ç Satinated ewer of white and lemon coloured opalina - provokes shrieks of horror from some and ooohs and aaahs from others.

ç Toso ashtray

ç Venini vase in Incalmo technique

ç Birds may have been made by Cenedese

 

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