Jan Exnar, Czech Crystal Monolith with Undercut Step, 1998

Massiccio fish with the rainbow cane sequence of Livio Seguso. This sequence was used in several pieces, bowls to be highlighted with lens effect of the piece. The fish body acts like a magnifying lens and the colors are moving when looking at the piece. See the video. Part of Livio Seguso production made under Bisazza ownership for a small period of the early 1990s. Livio continued his artist career with the freedom and the free state of mind that came from not owning a company. Similar path of Luciano Vistosi. Bisazza, the famous luxury mosaic company, continued Seguso models for the first part of the 1990s. Then closed the furnace and continued to focus with his mosaic collection. His masters, Elio Raffaelli...

This shows the Classic Murano figurine head with the casque hair position. The bowl has been waved to hot attach the two busts that are connected to t...

The vase made with the same technique of the tumblers in another listing. After the success of the tumbler group, I asked the maestro to make a vase that would keep the design and t...

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...

This sculpture of Livio is an early work. It carries the seed of his vision, 1970s. Livio started as a great maestro, his figurative pieces of his artist infancy already had a tende...

When I saw these pieces I was so happy to have found them as I knew the history of these wonderful pieces very well. There are great maestros and artist from Murano, some are very well known Seguso, Barbini, Tagliapietra. Roberto Camozzo is instead one that very few know. He and his partner Elio Raffaelli...

Beautiful fused crystal glass sculpture designed and fabricated by Jan Exnar, Czech Republic 1991. Glass appears to be crystal or neutral glass, in fused glass technique. Just incr...

Murano artistic glass monolith. The Murano artistic glass sculpture is a creative and natural expression of the artist Eros Raffael, made with transparent and pastel glass rods, silv...

Murano artistic glass monolith. The Murano artistic glass sculpture is a creative and natural expression of the artist Eros Raffael, made with transparent and pastel glass rods, silv...

Model for Americas Tower by the American Postwar & Contemporary artist Peter Lobello. Titled "3 Monoliths". Signed and Dated on base top and bottom. Made out of painted steel. This s...

Onyx vase sculpted from a single monolith stone with carved center and a polished exterior. The vase has a minimalist design which slightly tapers toward the top. Unique from every a...

Rodney Alan Blumenfeld B.1953. Totem 63 cm high Earthenware clay, press moulded, with metalic oxides and matt glazes South African B.1953. Rodney Alan Blumenfeld creates deeply textured, sensual and motif-laden ceramic forms. Each innovative and unique art piece strives to maintain a traditional tribal identity transposed into contemporary art,craft and design. Within each singular expression of creativity lies a precious reminder of ritual and custom, exuding presence of age-old mystery while spontaneously arousing vital powers of the imagination. Training Bachelor of Architecture – University Natal South Africa, 1980 Ceramic Science – Technikon, Durban, Natal, 1986 Awards Judges Award – Ceramic Artists Association of W.A. Annual Exhibition – September 2009 City of Melville Art Awards – Highly Commended 2009 – WA Longhouse Reserve – New York – USA Klenot/Dekora – Palace of Culture, Prague – Czechoslovakia 2000 Art for Asia – Hong Kong – China 1997 Design Award National Ceramics Biennale 1996 – South Africa 1st Prize Corobrik Ceramic Expo – South Africa 1989 Private Collections Bill Clinton – Former President USA Nelson Mandela – Former President of South Africa Tina Turner – Singer and song writer Peter Gabriel...