£85
A STYLISH LARGE 1930S ITALIAN VENETIAN MURANO GLASS VASE of flared form with ribbed body, internally decorated with tear and pear drop motifs upon a splayed foot. 30 cm x 24 cm. Note: Glass work is the most ancient and important art practiced in the lagoon, and was for hundreds of years one of the most important commercial industries of the Venetian Republic. The first recorded mention of a Glass Master in Venice, bottle-maker Dominicus Phiolarius, dates from the year 982. However, archeological research suggests that glass production was practiced in the lagoon, on the island of Torcello, even before the founding of the Republic. Venice was known and commercially successful in glass production, particularly mirrors and bottles, before all of the furnaces were moved from the center of the city and concentrated on the island of Murano in the year 1291. Though Some furnaces already existed on Murano, there were at the time a large and growing concentration of glass workshops in Riva Alto and Dorsoduro in the center of Venice.
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