Huge Signed Barbini Asymmetrical Modernist Murano Glass Vase

A fine Mid-Century Modern art glass vase. Attributed to Gullaskruf. Simply a great vase! Date: Mid-20th Century Overall Condition: It is in overall good, as-pictured, u...

A very large Mid-Century Modern Swedish art glass vase. By Gullaskruf. Design attributed to Arthur Carlsson Percy. In smoky grey glass with a large rounded base and flared n...

A fine Mid-Century Modern art glass vase. Attributed to Gullaskruf. Simply a great Scandinavian Modern vase! Date: Mid-20th Century Overall Condition: It is in overall ...

A fine American Art Glass vase. By Steuben. Designed by George Thompson in 1949. Of a bell shaped body with two applied scrolls and a thick circular foot. Model no. 7964 This m...

Large Murano Glass vase by Alfredo Barbini for Barbini. Clover-shaped thick glass body with hand-blown glass natural imperfections

Murano glass vase, signed Barbini, 20th Century, Italy. Cylinder shape vase with dynamic swirl pattern. A discontinued, contemporary design, signed A. Barbini. Alfredo Barbini (1912-...

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’s lifed crossed the whole 20th century, and left an indelible mark on the craft of Murano Glass. Initially master glassmaker at Zecchin & Martinuzzi, then founder at ...