The Murano Glass Vase, Legacy in Art Never Imitated
Murano Glass Vases are not simply decorative objects to make your home more attractive. This Venetian glass form is heritage and culture, blown by the world's greatest artists, conceived and created with a rarity that is only found among the Murano natives and their descendents. Businesses and their furnaces have been transported to different areas of the world but always find their way back to Murano after failure.
The quality of the workmanship that lies within each specialized Murano Glass Vase is incredible. Care and patience of the artisan in working with flux to shape, compounds to color and shaping of just the right preconceived form, have made this type of glass art one that cannot be reproduced.
The small island of Murano that lies off the coast of Venice, Italy, received many influences from different cultures beginning in the 9th century as a shipping port for visitors from Asia and Africa and further flourishing during the Renaissance period. Throughout Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries, Murano Glass Vases and other graceful hand blown figurines of glass were sought after, allowing the reputation and prestige of Venetian glassblowers to flourish.
You can find all types of styles, sizes and forms in a Murano glass vase and each will be a different, fulfilling work of art. From charging cobalt blue to symmetry of pastels of round or square shapes, no Murano glass vase will appear the same. Different terms separate the types of methods used by artisans that are recognized by avid collectors.
An Avventuria Murano Glass Vase is a clear glass with metal flecks that creates a shimmery, metallic look. Filigrana refers to an ancient technique from the 1500s that fill the core with an opaque white or colored glass. Further twisting and carefully aligning the filaments while heating make different straight, diamond or spiral patterns.
Massiccio is a technique used for making heavy rectangular or cylinder shaped Murano Glass Vases without blowing, giving a different density and more composed form. A most popular technique today is the Millefiori, "thousand flowers". Latino glass is decorated with murrine and often encased in a layer of clear or tinted glass. Pulegoso is clear glass containing innumerable bubbles, created by adding kerosene to the hot glass. These are but a few examples of the timely perfection of form used by Murano artists.
The Murano Glass Vase is a fascinating and historical part of the world's heritage and one that has not managed to change with society's changing structure and rules. In 1996, the Guinness Book of World records recognized the Barovier family of Barovier & Tosco Company, descendants of a long line of glass blowers for being the oldest glass making family in the world.
Owning a Murano Glass Vase will give you not only the pleasure of a beautiful, sensuous work of art but the history will bloom and tell a story for years to come.
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