Glass & Crystal
The Vortex
Murano / Italian Studio Glass Tradition
- DESCRIPTION
- To make a piece like this, the glassblower begins with a flat pad of murrini - thin slices of bundled coloured glass rods, each showing a cross-section of colour - laid out in a spiral pattern on the marver table. The hot gather is then rolled across them and blown, fusing all the colours into a single wall of glass, pressed and shaped into an asymmetric pooling triangular form.
- DIMENSIONS
- 8"L x 7"W x 2"H (approx)
- MEDIUM
- Hand-blown multicolour murrini glass, triangular press-formed bowl
- EDITION
- Unique / One-of-a-kind (Condition: Excellent)
- PERIOD
- Italy - Contemporary
- PROVENANCE
- The murrini spiral technique is one of Murano's oldest and most demanding, requiring a team of two or three glassblowers working in precise coordination. No single element of the pattern can be corrected once the gather is taken up.
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