Large Alfredo Barbini Murano Vase for Oggetti

Decorative Murano fruit and vegetable bowl centerpiece. Fruit and vegetables have gold swirl pattern. Bowl measures: 19.5" W x 5.5" H x 8.5" D.

Heavy quality Murano vase. Stunning blue color to the center.

Murano colorful glass Archimede Seguso vase.

Large Art Deco style frosted glass vase.  

Delicate large Murano glass vase by Alfredo Barbini for Barbini. Two different colors pieces joined together with Incalmo technique.

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...

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