Apollo vase design Borek SIPEK for SWAROVSKI. 1996

Blown glass vase, design Gino CENEDESE & Maurizio ALBARELLI. ORIGIN Murano PERIOD 1970s DESIGNER Gino CENEDESE & Maurizio ALBARELLI MARK Cenedese & Albarelli MATERIALS Blown gla...

Blown glass vase murano glass with gold flakes, design Ercole BAROVIER. ORIGIN Italy PERIOD 1950s AUTHOR Hercules BAROVIER MATERIALS Blown glass and gold flakes DIMENSIONS Heigh...

Colorful and rare glass bowl made in Italy for Driade by Borek Sipek very rare find with auction results excellent condition no chips or cracks.

Splendid murano mosaic vase with a perfect color combination and complex mosaic technique. The stellato finish is made by rolling canes of various color over a small blob of incandescent glass. The design is attained by using the glass scissors at the end and making flat discs with a star design. All these are then heated on a flat surface, in the old time was a stone so this technique still carries that name, lavorazione a piera. It's heated so that it becomes an unique mosaic rectangular piece. It's then rolled with a glass disc that has the exact perimeter of the rectangular side. This makes the name that this technique is internationally known, Roll-up technique. The difficulty is to close into a cylinder the two other sides of the rectangle. After that the cylinder is closed on the opposite end, glowed to ge to the size, changing the working point with the punty technique (a puntello) and handopening to get the final shape. An incredible sequence of glassmaking technique to get a special design. The result is an intricate design of stars in an infinitive patchwork of color matching. This is commonly known as Stellato vase, which was enhanced and studied by Pollio Perelda...