Italian Decorative Bowls

Article: Murano glass bowl, ashtray element Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 1970s This original vintage glass bowl element, ash tray was produced in the 1970s in Murano, Ital...

Beautiful and very rare collectible catch it all low bowl by Piero Fornasetti circa 1950's , no chips or cracks .

Article: Murano opaline bowl set of 2 Design: Gino Cenedese Producer: Cenedese Vetri (marked underneath the vase) Origin: Murano, Italy Decade: 196...

Amazing folded rim hand blown Murano glass ashtray / bowl with gold flecks and controlled air bubbles. Attributed to Barovier e Toso. Italy, 1950s. Pink and grey glass spots and clea...

Murano Glass Archimedes Seguso or Cenedese (suspected) Opaline Vintage Bowl/Ashtray. About 5" by 4.24 x 1.75". This item presents as an opalino white exterior with pink interior. Th...

Article: Murano glass ash tray Origin: Murano, Italy Design: Flavio Poli Decade: 1970s This original vintage g...

Gondola, big elegant bowl, hand-sculpted from a solid block of Rose quartz. The polished finishing underlines the transparency of the onyx making this a very precious object. Bowl ...

Midcentury Murano Seguso attributed ashtray. Amethyst purple with blue and pink detailing. No makers mark or signature.

An Italian Capodimonte style ceramic lidded bowl. Decorated with six faces in a bombé shape. Playful embossed cherubs alternate with embossed flowers...

Inside out fruit bowl in black Marquinia marble, designed by the internationally renowned designer Karen Chekerdjian - it is available also in other colours. It is part of the Inside...

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...

Fontana Arte was launched in 1932 with a mission to develop products with a more artisanal feel. The Italian design company's offerings range from stained glass to furnishings and li...

Mid-Century Modern Murano art glass bowl in amber and green, blown glass catchall, made in Italy. Heavy glass bowl with outstanding details.   A-647-335

Murano Sommerso Amber Glass Block Bowl / Vide Poche / Catchall / Ashtray, Italy, 1970's.

Beautiful midcentury Italian Murano glass bowls. Made using the Sommerso (submerged) glass technique. Measurements two smaller bowls: Blue purple bowl: 10x10x5 Brown orange bowl: ...

Blue Green Murano sculptural bowl narrow base Sculptural Italian art glass 10.5 w x 3.5 h x 7.75D Preowned vintage Refer to images provided

Exceptional historical piece. It has the rainbow patter. A sequence of canes that Livio loved to place in sculptures where the play with the lens effect of the other clear massiccio ...

Maiolica sugar bowl Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, Circa 1770-1780 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). It measures 3.54 x 4.52 x 3.54 in (9 x 11,5 x 9 cm) Weight: 0.394 lb (0.179 kg) State of conservation: small and slight chips on the edges. The small sugar bowl has a swollen and ribbed body resting on a flat base. The cap-shaped lid follows the rib of the container and is topped with a small knob in the shape of a two-colored fruit. The sugar bowl is painted “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) with the characteristic floral motif of bunches and isolated semis. An example which closely corresponds to this one is kept at the Civic Museum in Lodi (G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia, Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137). This decorative style represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and later introduced by Antonio Ferretti to Italy. The production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces starting from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, was able to commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables, both with or without contour lines, as well as in purple or green monochrome. After efforts to introduce more industrial production techniques to the sector succeeded, even the Ferretti manufacture, in the last decade of the eighteenth century, started heading towards decline despite its attempts to adapt production to neoclassical tastes. In 1796 the Napoleonic battle for the conquest of the Lodi bridge over the Adda definitively compromised the furnaces. Production resumed, albeit in a rather stunted manner, until Antonio's death on 29 December 1810. (M. L. Gelmini, pp. 28-30, 38, 43 sgg., 130-136 (for Simpliciano); pp. 31 sgg., 45-47, 142-192 (for Antonio). Bibliography G. Gregorietti, Maioliche di Lodi Milano e Pavia Catalogo della Mostra, Milano, 1964 n. 137; C. Baroni, Storia delle ceramiche nel Lodigiano, in Archivio storico per la città e i comuni del circondario e della diocesi di Lodi, XXXIV (1915), pp. 118, 124, 142; XXXV (1916), pp. 5-8; C. Baroni, La maiolica antica di Lodi, in Archivio storico lombardo, LVIII (1931), pp. 453-455; L. Ciboldi, La maiolica lodigiana, in Archivio storico lodigiano, LXXX (1953), pp. 25 sgg.; S. Levy, Maioliche settecentesche lombarde e venete, Milano 1962, pp. 17 sgg.; A. Novasconi - S. Ferrari - S. Corvi, La ceramica lodigiana, Lodi 1964, ad Indicem; Maioliche di Lodi, Milano e Pavia (catal.), Milano 1964, p. 17; O. Ferrari - G. Scavizzi, Maioliche italiane del Seicento e del Settecento, Milano 1965, pp. 26 sgg.; G. C. Sciolla, Lodi. Museo civico, Bologna 1977, pp. 69-85 passim; G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981; M. Vitali, in Storia dell'arte ceramica...

Fenicia bowl by Barovier, Murano, ca.1900. Blown double glass. Yellow, blue, green and white glass. 2 hot-applied handles. Measures: height: 1.6"(4cm), width: 3.5"(9cm), depth : 2.7"...

Postmodern handmade frosted Lucite bowl / centerpiece / tray made in Italy by Rede Guzzini, circa 1970s. The Rede Line is known for being highly desirable due to it's simplistic and ...

Hand-blown Blue Murano Scalloped Art Glass Bowl with Gold Flecks Eye-catching shell shaped Murano art glass bowl or ashtray in Navy blue with scalloped rim and interior Aventurine go...

Beautiful and rare, vintage Murano hand blown light green and gold flecks Italian art glass bowl with internal decoration. The piece is documented to designer Ercole Barovier for Bar...

Murano Controlled Bubble Glass Bowl / Ashtray by Barovier & Toso. White Lattimo Glass rim.

Extraordinary small Murano glass bowl coming from the famous workshops in Italy from the period around 1960/70. Colored in a fantastic blue and amber tone, this amazing designed, contemporary glass bowl impresses with its unusual shaped body - just see the artfully crafted base. A highly decorative mouthblown murano...

Hand blown Murano Sommerso square shaped geode bowl in purple pink fuchsia glass. Italy, 1960s. Eyecatching colors in shades of pink and purple using the "sommerso" technique. Manufa...

Archimede Seguso oval geode Murano glass Sommerso bowl / ashtray. Italy, 1950s-1960s. Beautiful elongate shape with purple eggplant and white alabastro...

A Mid-Century Modern red Murano art glass ashtray or small vide-poche catchall, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Dimensions: 1.5" Height x 3.38"...

Alfredo Barbini Murano Glass Bowl, Gold Polveri, A Pentoni BeFirstBoldy com This has been documented to Alfredo Barbini by others. We do not have the documentation ourselves. No ch...

This amazing brown handblown Murano sommerso glass bowl was designed and manufactured in Murano Italy by Flavio Poli for Seguso in the 1960s. It has a organic shape and is in excell...

Small bowl Murano glass Italian design midcentury 1940 red air bubbles.

A Mid-Century Modern Bistossi ceramic bowl with a stylized crossword design of squiggly lines with block squares in red, gray blue and black on a white glazed soft textured backgroun...

A beautiful Italian Murano art glass bowl, Italian Midcentury Modern design period, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Bowl has a white underside base merged wi...

Mid-Century Modern brass and bamboo / rattan large oval bowl, centerpiece or basket. It has a brass trim covering the top. Handcrafted in Italy, 1970s. Use it as fruit bowl or cente...

Midcentury Murano Glass Bowl with Aventurine Flecks. Attributed to Fratelli Toso. Italy, 1950-1960s. Beautiful handblown pink, purple and white with copper aventurine flecks spotted...

Wonderful set of 3 pencil reed bamboo trays, with banded brass edge, very much in the manner of famous Italian designer GC. One of tray form with brass handles. Dating to the 1970’...

Italian Mid-Century Modern Murano glass centerpiece, white and multicolor pastel tones This large bowl or centerpiece has free form design in handblown opaline white glass and swirl...

Hand blown Murano glass Sommerso triangle geode bowl in dark blue and turquoise blue glass . Italy, 1960s. A darker blue in the central part contrasting with the edge in turquoise blue using the "sommerso" technique Manufactured by Archimede Seguso and Seguso Vetri d'Arte A highly decorative geode bowl lovely to be used as rings bowl, decorative bowl or small ashtray. Beautiful placed with other Murano glass pieces to create a colorful set as shown at the images. Overall dimensions: 9,5 cm W x 8,5 cm D x 3,5 cm H Geode Glass Bowl // Murano Glass Bowl...

Stunning Italian mid-century shell shaped bowl or ashtray in solid brass. This delightful piece was designed in Italy in the 1970s by Renzo Cassetti Italia. This charming item featu...

Gorgeous hand blown Murano art glass piece with Sommerso and bullicante techniques. A beautiful organic shaped bowl, catchall or ashtray in blue and clear, Italy, 1970s.

Article: Murano glass bowl, element Origin: Murano, Italy Producer: FRATELLI TOSO (with producer label) Decade: 1970s This original vintage glass sh...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown amethyst purple and gold flecks Italian art glass seashell shaped bowl or ashtray. Documented to designer Ercole Barovier, for Barovier e Toso. Cr...

Hand hammered and enamelled bowl by Renato Vanzelli, 1960s, Italy. This is one of the most beautiful bowls we've ever seen. A true jewel for your interior. This beautiful bowl by Re...

White Roman travertine bowl designed by Le Lampade and made in Italy. 10 available.   

Incredibly elegant Italian decorative waste basket or trash can fully made in sturdy pleated leather. This charming piece was produced in Italy during the 1950s by Nova Tecno, clear...

Flower Bowl / Vide-Poche / Ashtray, Murano Glass, Italy, 1960s Amazing hand blown Murano glass artistic flower shaped bowl or ashtray in vibrant red ...

Blue Crystal Bowl Crystal Arte Italy, 1970 Curved Crystal Bowl Sticker Label Manufacture Perfect Condiction

Article: Murano glass ash tray Origin: Murano, Italy Design: Flavio Poli attributed. Decade: 1970s This original vintage glass ash tray bowl element was designed by Flav...

Decorative plate bowl Venini Design Murano Art glass Italy 1960s Multicolor.

Vintage Cobalt Blue Thumbprint Blown Art Glass Bowl by Elsa Peretti for Tiffany & Co. Mid-Century Modern Venetian Art Glass Bowl made in Italy circa 1980s. Can be used as a bowl, cat...

Fontana Arte model "1810" beveled glass ashtray / Made in Italy, circa 1960s Measures: Length 7.5 inches / width 4.6 inches / height 1.25 inches Literature: Quaderno Fontana Arte n.3...

Gorgeous hand blown Murano art glass piece with Sommerso and bullicante techniques. A beautiful organic shaped bowl, catchall or centrepiece, Venice, Murano, Italy. Colors are green ...

Gaetano Pesce "Big Surprise " A bowl or centerpiece supported by delicately placed resin drops. An incredible work of functional art. Edizione del Pesce for Meritalia.The Edizioni d...

A testament to Venetian mastery, this hand-blown Murano bowl in olive green is an exquisite fusion of artistry and luxury. The Battuto technique creates a sculptural, hammered textur...

Rattan and Rope Italian Basket Bowl Centerpiece, 1970s

Large Venini Bowl 'Coreano', Designed by Tapio Wirkkala in 1966 A blue and green a fasce a spirale bowl from the Coreani series. Designed in 1966 by Tapio Wirkkala for Venini. Produ...

Alfredo Barbini Murano Glass Bowl, Blue with Gold Leaf/Polveri, Circus Tent The infamous blue with gold circus tent design, one of the most sought after Murano / Barbini works. It ...

A white glazed ceramic basket of fruit, probably Italian. The pineapple stem has been repaired with a small loss. The leaf of another fruit has two two areas of mismatched filling. A...

Murano Glass Geode Bullicante Bowl, Seguso/Barbini, Gold Polveri BeFirstBoldy com We think this is probably a Seguso piece but since Barbini also made them, we mention both as poss...

Green & Blue Mid-Century Modern Murano Glass Pulegoso Bowl by Seguso (suspected). AVeM also made pulegoso works similar to this. This is a handsome bowl with a blueish/aqua blue ...

Hand blown Murano glass Sommerso triangle geode bowl in dark blue and turquoise blue glass . Italy, 1960s. A darker blue in the central part contrasting with the edge in turquoise b...