Italian Mid- Century Diminutive Murano Asymmetrical Glass Vide-Poche

Marcello Fantoni bowl decorated with a still life of Italian vases Decorated with rich applied enamel, signed on the front lower right and on the ...

Italian Modern Murano Glass 'Handkerchief' Bowl in Earth Tones Offered for sale is a stunning piece of Italian craftsmanship, this Italian Modern Murano Glass 'Handkerchief' Bowl in...

1980s Italian Pop Art Sculpture of a Purse, Museum Mounted A striking and possibly one-of-a-kind 1980s Italian Pop Art sculpture, designed as a purse and expertly mounted on a muse...

Art Nouveau Frog Motif Dish/ Vide-Poche by Achile Gamba-WMF Whimsical motif of a flute playing frog romancing fish in a lake. Stamped Achile Gamba a...

Murano, Italy, art glass dish. In perfect condition. Measures: 12.5 cm. x 12.5 cm. Unstamped.

Mid-Century Modern Murano Sommerso Art glass bowl 1960s A large and heavy Murano Sommerso glass bowl most probably manufactured by Seguso Vetri d'Arte circa 1960s. Manufactured in r...

A beautiful Italian Murano art glass bowl, Midcentury Modern Organic Modern design, attributed to Angelo Seguso, circa mid-20th century, Italy. A beautiful white opaline Murano art g...

Murano. With silver applications. We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'View All From Seller'. And you can see more objects to the style for sale. Technical Avventurina : Avventurina is a Murano glass-making technique developed on Murano island in the 17th century. I was first mentioned in a document dating from 1614 as "a kind of stone with gilt stars inside", at which point it already mesmerized people with the unusual and attractive look. The technique owes its name to the fact that its discovery happened by chance thanks to a lucky coincidence, when a glass artisan is said to have accidentally dropped some metal shavings into the glass mixture. Italians say it happened "all'avventura", which in Italian means "by chance". The first documented recipe for the technique dates from 1644, when Murano master glassmaker Giovanni Darduin described how Avventurina glass should be created. The recipe involves adding various metal oxides such as copper and iron to the hot glass mixture, which will cause tiny particles of the metals to crystallize as the glass mixture cools off. Complicating the process, for such crystallization to occur the furnace had to get fully extinguished, and the metal particles would slowly separate from the glass base over a few days during the natural cooling of the glass. This was a very difficult process from a logistical perspective, since every time a glass furnace got extinguished it caused work to be paused, and re-igniting it was quite a big process, as it took time to fully heat it to the desired temperature. As industrial revolution set foot on Murano in the nineteenth century, the process got a remake. Large volumes of fine Avventurina paste were made and then skillfully stretched into glass canes, which were then re-melted for jewelry-making under a small flame, or for glass blowing. This Avventurina paste received worldwide acclaim and re-ignited the fame of Murano Glass workshops due to its use in Salviati mosaics...