Mid-Century Murano Glass Opaline Dancers with Gold Leaf

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown black and white ribbons Italian art glass water bird sculpture on gold leaf base. Documented to designer Dino ...

An unusual and scarce pair Italian Murano art glass dancing couples believed to date from the mid-century but possibly earlier. The figures stand mounted...

Made in Italy, 1990s. This duck is made in Murano glass with gold leaf and murrines. It has its original signature and it is in excellent original condition. Measures: Width 13 cm D...

A large and impressive Murano glass fish with bullicante controlled bubbles attributed to Salviatt and Co. The elegant form with the fish tail curved upward with a sturdy round glas...

Exceptional Seguso venitian couple with incrustation gold glass Murano. The Design and the quality of the glass make this piece the best of the Italian Design. This unique Seguso da...

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...