Vitange Murano Glass Dancers Laticino Zanfirico with Gold Leaf

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown rainbow and white ribbons Italian art glass leaf shaped bowl, dish. Attributed to the Fratelli Toso company. Made with intricate twisting Zanfiric...

Pigeon murano art glass green gold white blue Zanfirico AVEM design 1960s.

Made in Italy, 1990s. This duck is made in Murano glass with gold leaf and murrines. It has its original signature and it is in excellent original condition. Measures: Width 13 cm D...

Elegant and elongated hand blown Murano sculpture of a flamenco dancer.

Incredible Fratelli Toso Murano glass bicolor with bubbles circa 1950.

Great color combination. The filigree/filigrana glass is a cane with a color inside. Usually clear on the outside with a core in colored or opaque glass. Most used are white or black filigrana. This is a self-made filigrana as there is a green coating over an Amethyst core, making the Amethyst almost a dark bronze color. The other cane is clear with amethyst. The twisting (mena in muranese, or ritorto) makes a lay with the back of the vase almost as it is a reticello (once called filigrana, so that explains the term mezza filigrana). The special color combination was then rolled over pure gold leaf, highlighted with the iridescence smoke and then covered with another layer of high temperature glass to make the gold vivid. The vase is quite large and carries a squared mouth, in a way of Carlo Scarpa mezza filigrana vases...