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Description
Barovier + Toso
MURANO 🇮🇹 ZEBRATi
Ashtray or Dish
24k GOLD Aventurine POLVERi
• DISCUSSION: Exceptionally beautiful historical piece by Ercole Barovier using his zebrati (zebra) technique, a closely guarded, proprietary process of the world-famous Murano glasshouse, Barovier & Toso. It is a variation of his Cordonato d'Oro method. A sequence of parallel horizontal lines of pure gold, matched with corresponding dark maroon interior decoration each is interrupted by an organic line. The absolute control of the light refraction and placement of the 23k gold leaf is magnificent. I tried to represent it with several photos in varying lighting conditions.
• Creator
Barovier & Toso (Maker)
Ercole Barovier (Artist/Designer)
• Dimensions
Width: 4 in. (10.16 cm) each side
Height: 2 in. (5 cm)
• Weight:
1-pound (453g)
• Style
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
• Materials and Techniques
Zebrati technique (Zebrato)
23k Gold leaf
Art Glass
Murano Glass
• Place of Origin
Venice, Italy (Murano Island in Venice Bay)
• Period
1950-1959
• Condition
Excellent (gift/collector). Minimal sliding scratches below the base. The rest is perfect.
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About the Designer
Ercole Barovier (1889–1974)
The nearly fifty-year tenure of Ercole Barovier as artistic director, designer and owner of Barovier & Toso is unprecedented in the history of Murano glass, and the firm’s success stands as a testament to his singular artistic talent and entrepreneurial genius.
Born in 1889 to a Muranese family that could trace its origins back to the 13th century, Barovier did not train as a glassblower but had a great passion for glass and quickly distinguished himself as an innovative designer. He joined Artisti Barovier in 1919 at the age of thirty and found success designing vases in the mosaic technique. In 1930 he produced the critically acclaimed and award-winning Primavera series, the success of which encouraged him to continue his experiments.
Throughout the 1930s and 1940s Barovier’s dedication to the technical mastery of experimental glass brought him international fame. His thick-walled vessels decorated with un-melted pigments, highly textured surfaces, raw metallic inclusions and expressive hot-work applications helped to create a new aesthetic vocabulary for Murano glass in the first half of the 20th century.
During the post-war period, Barovier’s prescient experimentation continued. Exploring the vast potential of glass tesserae arranged in geometric patterns, he re-invented mosaic glass and used it to express the renewed artistic vigor of post-war Italy.
By the time of his retirement in 1972 Ercole Barovier had designed thousands of models for his company. While many of these were never produced, the body of work that was created is staggering in its diversity, creative daring and technical complexity.
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