Alfredo Barbini Aquarium Vase with Light Base, Pauly & Co

Large Seguso cylinder vase with internally decorated swirls of blue and black, 1960s Italy. Uncirculated sample stock, New. Measures: 14.5" x 4.75".    

Charming and unusual Victorian glass umbrella vase with hand enameled raised gold and white decoration. Deep green glass with enamel decoration, repeated on the milk glass handle...

Imposing Weller Brush Art McCoy vase in mottled blues circa 1930's. Unusual large size with decorative spiral "handles" measuring 18" high by 10" wide, likely made by Brush McCoy Pottery...

Pair of lovely Victorian Enamel Blown Green Glass Vases with enamel floral and gilt decoration. Fluted tops with on gently lobed shape. Likely UK late 19th Century. Height 13.5 inch...

Alfredo Barbini Vibrant Large Murano Aquarium Vase with fish circa 1950’s

Alfredo Barbini Incalmo vase with an applied murine studded collar. A large and unusual vase by a master blower.

Murano hand blown fish vase infused with color attributed to Barbini. Vase has a partial Murano label. Vase measures 6.5" wide, 3" deep and 14" high.

Murano glass vase designed and produced by Alfredo Barbini in 1970. With original labels. Biography Alfredo Barbini (1912-2007) one of the greatest Murano glass artists of the 20th century. He learned the traditional techniques of glass blowing during his adolescence as an apprentice at the Franchetti Crystals and at SAIAR Ferro Toso. He then worked in the Zecchin-Martinuzzi Furnace alongside the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, the collaboration lasted from 1932-1936 creating the first solid glass sculptures designed by Martinuzzi, this experience will be fundamental for his artistic training. After the closure of the factory, he became a first-rate teacher at the V.A.M.S.A. (Murano Artistic Glass Company, Anonymous Society). Here, too, his contribution in the field of glass sculpture is remarkable, and in that of thick materials, with particular chromatic effects, such as the so-called “smoked glass”. He carries out works based on drawings by the painter Luigi Scarpa Croce...