Barbini Murano Vintage White Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Fan Rim Flower Vase

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown orange, controlled bubbles and gold flecks Italian art glass flower basket / vase. Documented to designer Alfre...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown aqua blue and gold flecks Italian art glass pitcher shape flower vase. Documented to designer Alfredo Barbini, with original worn "Venetian - Made...

Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown amethyst purple and gold flecks Italian art glass pitcher shape flower vase. Documented to designer Alfredo Barbini, with original intact "Venetia...

Beautiful and large, vintage Murano hand blown white and gold flecks Italian art glass decorative flower vase. It is documented to the Fratelli Toso company, and still has an origina...

Italian Mid-Century Four Leaf Clover Murano Glass Flower Vase resting on a round base (BARBINI)

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...

Alfredo Barbini Vase

Beautiful large Italian art glass vase by Alfredo Barbini for Murano Glass, circa 1990s. The piece has a wonderful pebble finish and is in very good vintage condition. The vase mea...