A punti

A punti

Decorative dots are applied to the hot glass with very thin glass rods: the tip is burnt in the flame, then leaned against the surface to decorate. The repetition of this operation creates patterns...

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A cerchi e fasce murano glass

A cerchi e a fasce

A cerchi e a fasce was a series of glassware by Carlo Scarpa for Venini & C . that featured clear glass, decorated with one or more coloured opaque glass ribbon-shaped patterns, in diffe...

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A macchie

A macchie

The large spot decorated series designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini is often intensely iridised and includes clear uncoloured glass bowls and dishes with clear glass abstract decorations - suc...

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Incamiciati Cinesi

Chinese was the definition attributed to a series of incamiciati (sleeved) glass vases and bowls, with forms drawn from the Oriental porcelain much appreciated by Scarpa.Some of these brightlyco...

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Musivo

This glass was invented by the painter Mario De Luigi who, exploiting Salviati & Co . Experience in the field of mosaics, used this technique for the execution of a series of va...

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Fondenti

They are materials that help the fusion of siliceous sand which, otherwise, would have a very high melting point, around 1700c. Usually sodium or potassium sulphates or carbonates are use...

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Cristallo

Cristallo

In Murano the word "cristallo" identifies the transparent glass without any colour and is also called "vetro bianco " (white glass). It is a sodic-calcium glass suitable, unlilke the Bo...

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Fenicio

Fenicio

Fenicio Decoration obtained by applied thread of lattimo glass or pasta vitrea round the body of the item in a festoon-like weavy pattern, obtained by using a kind of metal comb called "maneret...

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Doublé

Doublé

Doublé The purpose of this process is to preserve stable the gold or silver decorations. It reminds a technique used in Bohemia in the eighteen century, the "Zwischengoldglas", but with som...

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Cameo

Cameo

Cased Forms of glass, usually with an opaque white over a colour, in which the outer colour is carved to leave a translucent white relief design or figure in contrast against the layer or t...

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Colalizza

Under the opening of the furnace there is a hole from which, during the melting, some glass comes out and pours: this glass is called " colalizza ".

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A filo continuo

A filo continuo

This is a very rare glassware series designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini & C., and only two of its items are known and datedaround 1942. Consisting of a continuous coil of glass thread, th...

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Vetro acidato

Vetro acidato

It is a type of treatment made when the glass is cold using the fluorhydric acid which is the only able to natch the glass. It has a decorative effect similar to sandblasting but thinner and intang...

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Filigrana

Filigrana

One of the oldest traditional processes already in use in the XVI Century. It is done by applying under heat on the surface of an item a homogeneous series of transparent colourless glass canna ...

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Colorazione a caldo senza fusione

Colorazione a caldo senza fusione

This involves dipping a glowing glass bolo on salts, oxides or other elements and covering them by submerging everything with another layer of transparent molten glass. Under the effect of heat th...

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Rigati e tessuti

Rigati e tessuti

The rigato and tessuto glass can be considered Carlo Scarpa ’s original interpretation of the rod glass (i.e. filigree glass) and consists of multi-coloured glass rods. 
Exhibited at the Venice ...

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rugiada

rugiada

This is a type of glass invented by Ercole Barovier in 1940 consisting of an application of colourless glass grit onto the surface of an object during its production. W...

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Pastorale

It is a metal bar, a long rod, and so called "pastoral" used to bring to the heat the plates on which murrine, beads or rods are put to get in the oven to be worked and transformed in "vetro murri...

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