Giant vase or Ice Bucket Murano, Barovier & Toso. Unique Pulegoso and Bulicante.

Very large vase in Puligoso glass with four vertical applications Morise with 24K gold leaf embedded. The Puligoso finish is extremely well executed with small bubbles allover the gl...

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...

Artist/Designer: Barovier & Toso (Italian) Additional Information: Provenance: Estate of a noteworthy Italian glass collector from Florida and New York. Marking(s); notes: no marki...

Tessere Ambra vase by Barovier & Toso. Beautiful handblown glass vase of deep amethyst and amber colors formed to resemble woven fabric. Great oval shape, and signed on the underside.