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Venini, Archimede Seguso, Barovier, Fratelli Toso, Barbini and Salviati are among the featured items today!

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A.VE.M. - manufacturers of collectable designs of post WW2 artists Ansolo Fuga, Giulio Radi, Luciano Ferro, Aldo Nason (all deceased). Established in 1932 by Antonio Luigi Ferro, his son Egidio, and the master glass blowers Emilio Nason, Galliano Ferro, and Guilio Radi. In 1939 Guilio Radi became artistic director and his unique, experimental designs were produced. When Radi died in 1952, Giorgio Ferro became artistic director through 1955. Designer Anzelo Fuga, also known for his stained glass windows, created a highly recognizable series produced by A.VE.M. in the late fifties and then sporadically reproduced until today.

Antique Chinese Porcelain

Around the 1780's the next patterns to appear were the mostly monochrome Fitzhugh pattern. It was only made for a few decades up until the 1820 and exclusively for export. The spectacular quality is similar to the best of the above mentioned Nanking and late Willow patterns. The Fitzhugh pattern bears a close resemblance to the composition of the design on contemporary Chinese textiles, which might have served as an inspiration to the pattern maker. It consists of four groups of flowers or plants spaced evenly around a central panel, which in rare pieces are replaced with a coat-of-arm, initials, or a scenic view. The FitzhHugh pattern is usually found as an underglaze blue monochrome decoration but is also known in gold, green, blue, yellow, black, orange and sepia enamels as well as in combinations.

Promovetro

Vittorio Zecchin nasce a Murano nel 1878. Figlio di un tecnico vetraio, si diploma all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia . Insofferente verso la cultura verista tardo ottocentesca che qui incontra, si sente piuttosto attratto dagli stimoli offerti dalle Biennali veneziane che frequenta entrando in contatto con le ricerche simboliste e l’ambiente della secessione viennese.

Planet Glass

Large Barovier Coronado d'Oro Bowl Very unusual sculptural bowl in the signature "coronado Oro" technique by Barovier & Toso, circa 1950s. The bowl features a ribbed body with spiraling gold inclusions. The "fingers" which make up the sides of the bowl are wrapped over the top and joined together, making for an extremely interesting piece.

Murano Magic

The second notable event came in 1859 when an industrious lawyer from Vicenza, Antonio Salviati, arrived on Murano with a vision of a new market niche. His new firm Salviati dott. Antonio fu Bartolomeo focused on producing glass tiles for repairing the ubiquitous old mosaics of Venice and creating new ones. Fortuitously, the master glassblowers that he assembled for the new business included Lorenzo Radi, who had devoted considerable efforts in the 1850s to resurrecting some of the sophisticated glassmaking techniques from Murano's first heyday in the 1400s.

Rossella Junck

Rossella Junck opened her first gallery in Venice in 1982, and since 1989 has specialized in 19th and 20th century Murano glass. She has organized important exhibitions in her gallery and in museums in Italy and in other countries, and published many catalogues. Since 1995 she has widened her activities to include contemporary glass, working with a select group of emerging young artists who have had a great success with both public and critics. In 1999 she opened an exhibitions space in front of the Fenice Opera House, in Venice. In 2005 she opened a new gallery in Berlin.

Syracuse China Date Codes

Syracuse China/Onondaga Pottery Company was founded in 1871 when a group of investors bought out the W.H. Farrar Pottery Company of Geddes, NY. In 1966, the Onondaga Pottery company officially changed its name to Syracuse China, a name that had long been associated with their institutional and fine china lines.

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