Vetro mosaico vase composed of multicolored patches of translucent glass tessere set to form a floral pattern. Several vases in vetro mosaico were presented by the Artisti Barovier at the Ca’ Pesaro show in 1913. At this exhibition the Artisti Barovier shared a room, dedicated exclusively to glass, with the painter Vittorio Zecchin, who also designed vessels and tiles using the murrine technique.
Signed with a glass murrina bearing the initials AB, above which rises a crown.
7 7/8 in. high (20 cm)

Exhibitions:
1913, Venice, Ca’ Pesaro
(?);
1914, Venice, 11th Biennale Internazionale d’Arte (?);
2000, New York, Venetian Glass, Museum of Arts & Design;
2001, Milan, Murano: Vetri dalla Collezione Olnick Spanu,
Spazio Oberdan.

Bibliography and comparative texts:
Catalogue of the Esposizione di Estate, 1920, p. 1;
M. Barovier, 1993, nn. 32, 48;
M. Barovier, R. Barovier Mentasti,
A. Dorigato 1995, n. 9;
M. Heiremans, 1996, n. 5;
R. Reif, New York Times, 2000, p. 39;
Olnick Spanu, 2000, n. 1;
Olnick Spanu, 2001, n. 3.