What is Aventurine in Murano glass?

Murano Aventurine is glass that has been decorated with a surface effect which resembles shimmering specks found in quartz. This technique was pioneered by Murano in the 17th century. On 1stDibs, find Murano glass products from top sellers around the world.

Aventurine Murano Basket

White Basket Italy

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Hand Blown Dish

Fratelli Toso Murano Art Glass

Murano Dish Mid Century

Pink And White Glass Bowl

Materials

Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass

$550

Mid-Century Murano Gold Aventurine Fleck Large Freeform Glass Dish

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A large Murano glass dish in a warm gold-copper tone, featuring shimmering aventurine flecks throughout. The piece has an elegant freeform shape with a curled side detail, giving it ...

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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-P...

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Murano Glass

Murano Filigrana Glass Dish with Aventurine, Attributed to Cenedese & Alberelli

$273Sale Price|20% Off

Murano Filigrana Glass Dish with Aventurine, Attributed to Cenedese & Alberelli

By Cenedese & Albarelli

Located in Glasgow, GB

A vibrant Murano filigrana glass dish, attributed to Cenedese & Alberelli, Italy, circa 1970s. This small decorative dish showcases classic Murano glass artistry, with alternating ...

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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

Materials

Murano Glass

$400

Mid Century Murano Art Glass Basket w/ Copper Aventurine - Italy - Circa 1950's

Located in Chatham, ON

Mid Century Murano art glass basket - featuring copper aventurine canes and blue glass with a clear glass handle - small size - light weight with a polished finish - original retail ...

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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass

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Art Glass

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Murano Zanfirico Bowl with Aventurine

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H 3 in W 12 in D 8 in

Aventurine Green and Gold Murano Bowl

Located in New York, NY

Murano Bowl

Materials

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H 4 in W 14.25 in D 8.75 in

Fratelli Toso Murano Zanfirico Ribbons Aventurine Flecks Italian Art Glass Bowl

By Fratelli Toso

Located in Kissimmee, FL

FREE Shipping Worldwide! See details below description. Large Murano Hand Blown Zanfirico Lace Ribbons and Aventurine Flecks Art Glass Centerpiece Bowl. Documented to the Fratelli...

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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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$675

H 1.97 in Dm 5.91 in

Alfredo Barbini attr. Murano Glass Bowl, Venice 1960s

By Alfredo Barbini

Located in Berghuelen, DE

Alfredo Barbini attr. Murano Glass Bowl, Venice 1960s Item e8278 A rare art glass bowl manufactured and designed most probably by Alfredo Barbini in the 1960s. Made of multilayered o...

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

Materials

Art Glass

Stunning Murano Art Glass Bowl Catchall Blue and Clear, Vintage, Italy, 1970s

$360

H 5.75 in Dm 10.5 in

Stunning Murano Art Glass Bowl Catchall Blue and Clear, Vintage, Italy, 1970s

By Murano Glass Sommerso

Located in Nuernberg, DE

Gorgeous hand blown Murano art glass piece with Sommerso and bullicante techniques. A beautiful organic shaped bowl, catchall, Venice, Murano, Italy, 1970s. Found at an Estate sale i...

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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

Materials

Art Glass

$1,043

H 2.37 in W 5.24 in D 5.12 in

Italian Multicolor Murano Murrine Glass Bowl, 1960s

Located in Barcelona, ES

One of a kind Multi Color Murrine Art Glass Bowl, Italy, 1950-1960s. Coloful Murano Millefiori art glass organic bowl with silver flecks and print animal design underneath. This mil...

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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Silver Leaf

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By Juliana Lima Vasconcellos

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Brass framed Italian mirror Pairs available.

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Bertil Vallien for Kosta Boda Blue Peacock Cirrus Vase, 1960s

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Bertil Vallien for Kosta Boda Blue Peacock Cirrus Vase, 1960s

By Bertil Vallien, Kosta Boda

Located in Copenhagen, DK

Striking blue, mouthblown controlled bubble art glass vase with decorative black eyes with clear middle resembling the eyes on peacock feathers. Designed and handmade by acclaimed Sw...

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Ray & Charles Eames for Herman Miller Full Option Rare Green Desk Chair, 1958

By Herman Miller, Charles and Ray Eames

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Aventurine Murano Basket For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal aventurine murano basket for your home. Each aventurine murano basket for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using glass, murano glass and art glass. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect aventurine murano basket — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A aventurine murano basket is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Victorian and Art Deco styles are sought with frequency. A well-made aventurine murano basket has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Fratelli Toso, Alfredo Barbini and Compagnia Di Venezia E Murano (C.V.M.) are consistently popular.

How Much is a Aventurine Murano Basket?

Prices for a aventurine murano basket start at $225 and top out at $1,400 with the average selling for $650.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

Finding the Right Decorative-bowls for You

Vintage, new and antique decorative bowls have been an important part of the home for centuries, although their uses have changed over the years. While functional examples of bowls date back thousands of years, ornamental design on bowls as well as baskets likewise has a rich heritage, from the carved bowls of the Maya to the plaited river-cane baskets of Indigenous people in the Southeast United States.

Decorative objects continue to bring character and art into a space. An outdoor gathering can become a sophisticated garden party with the addition of a few natural-fiber baskets to hold blankets or fruit on a table, as demonstrated in the interior design work by firms such as Alexander Design.

Elsewhere, Richard Haining’s reclaimed wood vases and bowls can express eco-consciousness. Sculptural handmade cast concrete bowls like those made by the Oakland, California–based UMÉ Studio introduce compelling textures to your dining room table.

Minimalist ceramic decorative bowls of varying colors can evoke a feeling of human connectedness through their association with handmade craftsmanship, such as in the rooms envisioned by South African interior designer Kelly Hoppen. And you can elevate any space with ceramic bowls that match the color scheme.

Browse the 1stDibs collection of decorative bowls and explore the endless options available.

Questions About Aventurine Murano Basket

What is Aventurine in Murano glass?
1 Answer
1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
Murano Aventurine is glass that has been decorated with a surface effect which resembles shimmering specks found in quartz. This technique was pioneered by Murano in the 17th century. On 1stDibs, find Murano glass products from top sellers around the world.