Italian Vases

Rare Paolo Venini vase decorated with Zanfirico canes in a vibrant light yellow with black and white details. Mouth-blown and hand-crafted at Venini glassworks in Murano in the 1950...

The Niobe Glass Vase was originally designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1986. The vase is made out of blown glass and signed on the base. For further information please see authenticity i...

Beautiful Murano hand blown Italian art glass vase. Created by a Murano glass company. A beautiful piece of art for any room. Found at an Estate Sale in Nuremberg, Germany.

Sterling Silver vase decorated with two heads 1970's Italian work 800 silver hallmark Weight: 1167 grams

Gorgeous and very large, vintage Murano hand blown pink, opaline white and gold flecks Italian art glass sculptural handkerchief Fazzoletto flower vase. Documented to designer Fulvio...

An amazing ceramic Mid-Century Modern floor vase made in Italy, circa 1960s. This is a heavy floor vase. Vase is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, or flea bites. Nice col...

Handcrafted Sicilian Ceramic Bowl in yellow. This exquisite handmade Sicilian ceramic bowl is a timeless symbol of prosperity, good fortune, and Mediterranean heritage. Crafted by s...

Murano blue white and green glass vase. Vintage square based vase with flared neck. Italy, circa 1960s. Dimensions: 5.75” square base x 9.25” height.  

Beautiful, and extra large, vintage Murano hand blown pink and white ribbons over aqua blue Italian art glass sculptural handkerchief / fazzoletto vase. Documented to the Fratelli To...

A white, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian tall pair of glazed ecru colored ceramic décor in the shape of a vase with overspilling floral ornaments, in good condition. Wear consiste...

“A Canne” Murano glass vase by Gio Ponti, Venini Murano Italy (Founded in 1921). Murano glass vase made up of six alternating colored “canes”. The colors are: Red, Green, Mole Gray, ...

Antique Vetro Soffiato Glass Vase, Murano 1920s Beautiful 'Vetro Soffiato' vase with bell-shaped bowl and conical foot made of very thin, light blue, t...

Absolutely stunning and rare Seguso large, heavy vintage Mid-Century Modern textured Italian glass vase by Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano, Italy, circa 1980s / early 1990s. Elegant in fo...

Carlo Moretti Green Scavo Corroso Art Glass Vase with Handles Hand blown Murano glass scavo bianco corroso vase in acid green color with applied dark green handles. Attributed to Car...

These two vases represent the Grooms in Green, they travel far, but their heart is in Sicily, among the capers of Salina and the olives of Belice. They walk in pairs, but sometimes t...

Wonderful vintage Italian terracotta olive oil jug. Hand painted decorations in blues and gold. Nice lion head with rings on each side,

Large ceramic Rimini blue vase for Bitossi. This magnificent large vase was designed by Aldo Londi in Italy during 1960s. This fantastic piece is wonderful blue, green and turquoise...

This large vase features a Cordone a Fenicio finish. It has a big spiral bead that is pulled vertically to form decorative festoons. This technique, known as Fenicio, was first seen on Phoenician glass...

A Mid-Century Modern Bistossi ceramic vase with a stylized crossword design of squiggly lines with block squares in red, yellow, gray blue and black on a white glazed soft textured b...

A set of five small murrine glass vases, manufactured by Vetreria Fratelli Toso around 1910. The vases are executed with polychrome multicoloured millefiori murrines and have an acid...

Found in Italy, this vibrant Murano glass vase dates from the late 1990s, early 2000s. Tall ovoid shape in shades of orange and green with clear and black accents. Vase has etched Fa...

Mid-Century Modern Murano Blown Glass Red Vase Large Size. An spectacular handblown Murano art glass vase in a vibrant ruby red color and tall flower shape. Attributed to Archimede S...

Ercole Barovier. Murrine vase 1930 Artistica Barovier Italy, 1930 Clear murrines edged in red with aventurine Signature Ercole Barovier 31 × 17 cm Excellent condition Provenie...

Imposing vase attributed to Flavio Poli and produced in Italy in the 60s. The vase was made of Murano glass in forest green with two cords at the extremity, one in electric blue and ...

Vintage Murano Italian art glass vase. This charming blue and purple vase has been hand blown with a colorful stripped pattern. This piece can be decorative as well as functional hol...

An Etruscan "bucchero" black ware two handle vase dating from the 6th century BC. Adorned with boar designs in relief around the body of vessel and a single standing human figure in...

Large Italian vase of the mid-20th century. Ceramic object enameled and hand painted with decorations of character and oriental style. Vase with lid adorned with sculpture depicting ...

This visually stunning vase resembles a highly abstract version of the human heart. It's body is separated into two textured chambers, one opaque and one transparent. Veiny, thin, da...

A rare Ermanno Toso white bottle form Venetian glass vase with murrine throughout. Of similar form to the bottle vases in Toso's Nerox line. Base bears a Fratelli Toso, made i...

Before describing the object under consideration, we must make an important clarification; the artifact, one of many that we will publish over time, is part of the museum collection of a historic Florentine crystal grinder that unfortunately closed recently. It is the Marcello Galgani & Son company, whose completely manual and artisanal work has not withstood the disproportionate advance of mass-produced mechanical processes! Marcello Galgani began his craft as a grinder and restorer in 1960; as the years went by, Marcello mastered and became familiar with particular techniques and shapes, resulting in the production of objects that manage to retain the freshness of grinding and engraving, the warmth and softness of light, and the inimitable flavor of unique artifacts. After several years, his son Lorenzo, who grew up among crystals, also entered the business and immediately became passionate about this ancient craft with skill and ability. Stimulated by the aesthetic sense of the past, father and son, set up a workshop in which the shapes they researched and created themselves are mouth-blown by traditional Tuscan glassmakers in Empoli, then ground and engraved using ancient sixteenth-century techniques, with motifs born from the Galgani's inexhaustible imagination or culturally inspired by designs of objects seen and studied in Florentine museums (Uffizi, Galleria Palatina, Museo degli Argenti, etc.). Marcello and Lorenzo Galgani were also Masters in the difficult art of restoration, bringing rare and precious objects back to life. As mentioned the company recently closed and disposed of all its last production, and only Marcello's old private museum collection remained, which includes unique and special objects created over time, a collection that the craftsman made available to us for a planned sale. All of the objects were made entirely by hand with old grinding wheels, but there were mainly two tools that allowed the creation of masterpieces: the right hand and the left hand of the master craftsman. Ancient glassmaking techniques were used for all the ground and engraved products: first, the object was ground with an emery wheel fed continuously by a jet of abrasive sand and water, then re-polished with a very fine-grained sandstone wheel also fed with water; the engravings were done freehand using as many as 10-15 small stone wheels for each design (flowers, branches, animals, etc. ); then the object was polished and shined; we must make, at this point, an important clarification on these last two operations: towards the end of the 1960s acid crystal polishing was devised, the object was immersed and rotated in a solution of sulfuric acid, fluoridic acid and water and in a short time all the defects left by the previous processes were eliminated, it was a fast, industrial operation that allowed to lower costs considerably, with discrete but not excellent results. But for Galgani's products polishing is done with a cork bark wheel wet with water and pumice, to make the surfaces more transparent, and finally polishing was achieved with a felt wheel wet with a paste of water, iron oxide, and cerium oxide. This series of processes takes an average of two days of work( sometimes much longer) for each object, each engraving or grinding is the result of the creative inventiveness of the two artisans, inventiveness that transforms crystal into reality material of the highest aesthetic value and inestimable value. All the items in the entire collection have never been used; they were part of the exhibition. Large crystal vase; the decorations, in baroque style represent a series of "grotesques" The object is "a unique piece" signed by the Master, it was created in Marcello Galgani's workshop in 1983 and made with the techniques (grinding, engraving and polishing) that we explained in the description; for the shape, the Master was inspired by a vase present in a painting, preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence by the sixteenth-century painter Jacopo Ligozzi...

Beautiful small red Murano glass vase made in Italy in the 1970s. The vase is in excellent vintage condition, with no damage. Dimensions: Width: 15.5 cm / 5.9 inches Height: 20 cm ...

Vase Barovier e Toso Rostrato 1940.

1970s Luxury blue handcrafted vase in Murano glass by Ca dei Vetrai. Made in Italy. The item is in excellent condition. This vase is handmade in blown glass. Dimension: diam 6,69 x ...

Pair of Italian centerpieces from the first half of the 20th century. Objects in gilded and chiseled bronze with a square plinth base veneered in marble. Centerpieces of fabulous dec...

This beautiful Murano block vase is a small work of art. The shape and the refraction of light are beautiful and captivate every viewer. The vase is well-kept but has a small defect ...

Gres Stoneware vase designed and produced by Italian artist Bruno Gambone in shades of white, brown and orange, production Italy 1970s Signed Gambone Italy under the vase.

Italian Aldo Londi for Bitossi Collectors Vase in Rimini Blu Design, 1980s Beautiful small vase designed from Aldo Londi for Bitossi Ceramiche, Italy...

Carlo Scarpa for Venini 1906 - 1978 “Pennellate” vase, 1942 Carlo Scarpa for Venini “Pennellate” vase 1942 While the world was at war in 1942, Scarpa and Venini produced a rare ser...

This post-modern vase designed by Lino Sabattini exemplifies the clean, sleek aesthetic typical of Sabattini's work and the minimalist movement of the era. This vase features a perfe...

Mid-Century Italian Red Pottery Vase by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional information: Mat...

19th Century Italian sterling silver decorative vase with two side handles and exterior design details. The vase features a finely chase body with applied foliate motifs and semi pre...

Bitossi Ball Vase, Ceramic, Stripes, Yellow, Orange, Red, Black, Signed. Chunky ball vase with glazed graduated bands of colors: yellow, orange, red, brown and black. Signed in the g...

Aldo Londi was a prominent Italian ceramicist known for his work at Bitossi Ceramiche. Bitossi ceramics are highly regarded for their distinctive designs and craftsmanship, making th...

Cenedese vintage midcentury modern tall and rare 'new old stock' polished faceted Murano glass obelisk in a beautiful light neon yellow colored / coloured glass, made circa 1970. Won...

Interestingly shaped vase, the spout finished with a flower shape. Beautiful, vivid colors. Hand-formed, three-layer glass. Original label to the bottom. Perfect condition. Dimension...

The Mad sheep farmer is a long vase consisting of a body and a lid. This object is entirely handmade in white clay and many colored crystallines.

A large assortment of Italian hand-carved and hand-painted marble and alabaster fruit arranged on a round white marble tazza with a pedestal base. A total of 24 pieces of fruit in ov...

"Incamiciato" Italian Art glass vase by Tomaso Buzzi for Venini. Clear, white and green. With original label. Signed: Venini Italia '89.

Set of vintage majolica bud ewer vase and dresser box with lid features highly textured surfaces with complex teal glaze; the pieces are decorated with abstract flowers and leaves in...

Titus I is a large pink blown grass vase with a gunmetal stand. The product is part of the collection New Roman, by Jaime Hayon: inspired by the vessels of...

Venini glass vase in grey and blue-green designed by Tapio Wirkkala in 1966. Perfect for indoor home decor as container or statement piece for any room. Dimensions: 10 cm diameter...

A rare and beautiful table lamp from the ''Pallotta'' series in talpa glass and polychrome hand blowed glass balls inside. Designed by Studio Venini during the 1970s this table la...

Alfredo Barbini Large Vase 'doppio incalmo', Venice ca. 1965 A large heavy glass vase manufactured and designed by Alfredo Barbini ca. 1965. Th...

This exquisite hand-blown Murano glass vase, crafted by the renowned Salviati artisans of Italy circa 1970, epitomizes mid-century modernist design. The urn-shaped silhouette is ador...

Beautiful pink murano vase by Archimede Seguso made in Italy in the 1950s. Archimede Seguso was an Italian glass artist known for his exquisite glass vases, necklaces, and sculptures...

Monofiore Balloton medium vase in amber Murano glass by Venini. It looks soft, but it’s not; it’s glass. The optical illusion of Monofiori by Venini from 1970 lies in its name: Ballo...

1960's Murano glass vase. Striking blue coloured swirls in clear glass (handmade). For use as a decorative item or as a functional vessel for holding flowers or other decorative elem...

Alessio Tasca ceramic vase, Italy, 1970s Additional Information: Materials: Glazed ceramic Dimensions: 2” H x 11 1/2” W x 2 5/8” D Condition: One small chip to top edge.