Murano glass vase "incalmo" technique

This colorful vase is a unique piece in both its form and colors. To create it, various layers of Murano glass must be overlaid using the incalmo technique, which is a glassworking m...

This colorful vase is a unique piece in both its form and colors. For this technique, the master glassmaker uses a special metal mold which has small pyramid-shaped tips with a squar...

This colorful vase is a unique piece in both its form and colors. For this technique, the master glassmaker uses a special metal mold which has small pyramid-shaped tips with a squar...

Our vases in Murano glass and dotted white stoneware are entirely handmade with the use of a lathe.u2028After shaping, the jars must dry completely and can...

"Our vases are crafted by blowing a glass bubble into an aluminum net. Upon contact with the hot glass, the aluminum melts, generating bubbles and leaving behind glossy residues. The...

Our vases are crafted by blowing a glass bubble into an aluminum net. Upon contact with the hot glass, the aluminum melts, generating bubbles and leaving behind glossy residues. The ...

A stunning Italian Murano art glass '4 Quarti' incalmo colored glass vase designed by Seguso Viro as part of their 'Collezioni' range and probably dating from circa 1960-1970. The vase uses the incalmo technique in joining the four distinct colours namely red, blue, yellow and green in a typical 'cartoccio' form. A truly exquisite design and a wonderful display piece this large vase has etched Seguso Viro Murano...

Superb large yellow and blue hand-blown incalmo glass vase by the internationally acclaimed American artist Sonja Blomdahl. The richness and beauty of the colors need to be seen in p...

A large and decorative Murano glass vase of the 'Fiapi' series designed by Carlo Nason and manufactured by V. Nason & C. Murano end of the 20th century. Clear and white glass fused i...

Beautiful Luciano Gaspari vase for Salviati Murano made in the 1970s from the Incalmo series. This vase has eye-catching colors, with royal blue submerged into aquamarine blue. It is...

A large and decorative murano glass vase of the 'Fiapi' series designed by Carlo Nason and manufactured by V. Nason & C. Murano end of the 20th century. Amber and black glass fused i...

Among the many designs and different techniques he experimented within his collaboration with Venini, Fulvio Bianconi used the "A incalmo" technique which requires great mastery from the glassblowers. This is an "a doppio incalmo" vase which simply means a double incalmo. Cylindrical vase, composed of three distinct colors. The base in black glass, the middle part in red glass and the upper part in blue glass. The vases were obtained by merging several "rings" of molten glass. Designed in 1951, the vase is in very good condition. It was produced in the 1950s and bears the acid seal "venini murano italia". The vase is published in many books, and is sometimes misattributed to Thomas Stearns who will be inspired by these forms and these particular techniques developed by Fulvio Bianconi, Paolo Venini and also Ricardo Licata...