Luca Bojola Pair of Ducks Cast Brass Murano Licio Zanetti Glass, 1980s, Small

Two collector's goblet. The finesse and details of his pieces are excellent. See the photos. Finish is different. One has a sort of feather patter and has aquamarine light transparency. The other is darker and from outside the cup might look black but against the light shows it's beauty Young Igor Balbi is a world wide known glass artist. He developed his finish and teaches at Corning Museum. Belongs to the new generation of Lume artist, starting from Cesare Toffolo, Lucio Bubacco and Vittorio...

Great color combination. The filigree/filigrana glass is a cane with a color inside. Usually clear on the outside with a core in colored or opaque glass. Most used are white or black filigrana. This is a self-made filigrana as there is a green coating over an Amethyst core, making the Amethyst almost a dark bronze color. The other cane is clear with amethyst. The twisting (mena in muranese, or ritorto) makes a lay with the back of the vase almost as it is a reticello (once called filigrana, so that explains the term mezza filigrana). The special color combination was then rolled over pure gold leaf, highlighted with the iridescence smoke and then covered with another layer of high temperature glass to make the gold vivid. The vase is quite large and carries a squared mouth, in a way of Carlo Scarpa mezza filigrana vases...