"Vetro Oriente" vase, 1952

ExecutionVetri Decorativi Rag. Aureliano Toso, 1938–1938

DesignDino Martens, Venezia 1894–1970 Venezia

ExecutionGlasmachermeister Aldo "Polo" Bon, Murano 1906–1988 Murano

Clear glass, applied coloured glass, blown

(H x Ø)21 x 18,7 cm

Place of originMurano

Status

not on display

About the workThe glassworks achieved its greatest artistic recognition with wild mixtures of colours and patterns. Dino Martens, its creator, had remained unsuccessful as a freelance, erratic artist. Out of necessity, he accepted his brother-in-law Aureliano Toso’s offer to contribute designs for glass in 1940. With his experimental contributions, he characterised the artistic awakening of Murano’s glass art after the Second World War. This vase is described in a model drawing as a “fiaschetta sferica a mace petoni tipo oriente”, “spherical vial with brightly coloured spots of the Oriental type”.

AccessionAcquisition 1997

Inventory numberGl 1997-1

Post-War Modernism

Contact

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