Italian Glass VasesMurano Glass Products and moreWith Italian Glass Vases as gift you serve several senses and wishes of your recipient. They have a gorgeous design, are unique as handicraft work and have of course - as vase - a high functionality. Italy has a long glass making traditionFor hundreds of years glass has been made in Italy. In 1910, totally modern designs appeared and the interest in the glassmaking industry grew enormously. The famous glass industry in Murano is in 1920s closly connected with one name: Carlo Venini! He prefered plain pieces with clean lines and color instead of the traditional delicate glass with filigree and curlicues. In combination with many creative artists input by the 1950s, Murano glass is again famous worldwide. Antica Murrina Veneziana Millefiori - Multicolor Murano Glass Small Vase  Antica Murrina Veneziana Milano - Black Byzantine Murano Glass Vase
You don’t have to pay thousands of dollarsThe glass vases and figurines made since the 1950s are selling for high prices today. If such an italian glass vase is well made and by a top designer it can cost several thousands of dollars. Bargains are still to be found because most pieces are unmarked and often unrecognized. Contemporary artglass vases and classic venetian glass vases you can get in a very wide price range from 50 up to 5000.
Different Style types of VasesThe Vase style can range from contemporary or classic to classic ventian pieces. And of course there are vases with a high functionality or other ones which are more a sculpture than a real vase. A wide variety of Murano Glass vases for your enjoyment, including vases that exhibit a broad range of glass techniques, from avventura to sommerso and other styles of glass making perfected.
Established italian master glassmakers for vasesFor your orientation find here an overview of the established italian artists and master glassmakers for italian glass vases from today:- Fragile Studio - Afro Celotto, - Stefano Toso e Romano Dona, - Aureliano Toso, - Alberto Donà, - Leonardo Cimolin, - Campagnol e Davide Salvadore, - Giuliano Tosi, - Mauro Bonaventura, - Barbini, Diego Vio, - Andrea Naccari - Dei Rossi, - Seguso,
Our special Tip: Afro CelottoIn our opinion Afro Celotto is one of the best glassmakers in Murano Island. It’s not seldom that the masters reproduce several times their most beautiful pieces. They repeat the same few patterns and designs during their whole life and making alsmost disappear the border between the good craftmen and the real artists. This is not Afro's philosophy.Celotto is really proud of each piece and he explains with passion the ideas and technical features behind each one. He gets excited when he talks about his works: he shows us his last huge glass vase, an incredible bottle with perfect incalmos and murrina, a complex vessel, a strange blown sculpture representing a multicolour fish, than another vase, a filigree drop, a goblet, again vessels...
Choose the best!Before buying make sure to choose every single glass vase among the best master glassmakers or craftmen of Murano Island as mentionned above.Italian Pottery Return from "this" page to Murano Glass Products Overview Return from "italian glass vases" page to Best Italian Gifts |