MURANO OBALL PINK SOMMERSO ALABASTRO GLASS DUCK 13,0CM HIGH

A BEAUTIFUL VINTAGE MURANO PINK ALABASTRO DUCK. USING THE SOMMERSO TRADITIONAL MURANO MASTER TECHNIQUE. THIS IS A MAGNIFICENT VINTAGE VENETIAN PINK ALABASTRO DUCK, MADE ON THE ISLAND OF MURANO, NEAR VENICE, ITALY IN A STUNNING COMBINATION OF OPAQUE PINK AND WHITE GLASS, KNOWN AS ALABASTRO GLASS.

 
THE ROSE-PINK COLOURED GLASS ENCASED BODY UPWARDS CURLED TAIL, CURVED RISING NECK WITH ATTACHED CLEAR GLASS BEAK AND APPLIED EYES, ON A SHAPED AND POLISHED BASE.
 
THERE ARE NO LABELS BUT IT IS BY ALL INDICATIONS IT IS A OBALL GLASS CREATION. I FOUND AN ALMOST IDENTICAL PINK DUCK ONLINE THAT STILL HAD THE TRANSPARENT STICKER MURANO VETRERIA ARTISTICA (ARTISTIC GLASSWARE) OBALL ON IT.
 
OBALL (1978-present): Vetreria Artistica Oball was founded in 1978 on the island of Murano, Venice, Italy, by Luigi Onesto. Luigi was later joined at the Oball factory by his sons, Fabio Onesto and Michele Onesto. Oball are best known for their very impressive, multi layered sommerso vases, bottles and other objects. Today Fabio and Michele Onesto are the creators and designers of all their products.
 
THIS STUNNING GLASS DUCK SHOW VARIOUS MURANO MASTER AND HANDMADE TECHNIQUES USED. APART FROM THE SOMMERSO (LAYERED COLOURS) TECHNIQUE IT ALSO SHOWS SOME BUBBLES IN THE BEAK AND IMPERFECTIONS SHOWING THAT IT IS HANDMADE.
 
SIZE: ITS IS 15CM FROM TAIL TO BEAK AND 13,0CM HIGH.
CONDITION: A BEAUTIFUL PIECE WITH NO NO CHIPS NOR CRACKS!
 
MURANO GLASS: Murano glass is a specific style of glass that's handmade and is made with bold colors that are often layered in a technique that is called Sommerso that was developed by Murano master Antonio Da Ross in the 1930s. All Murano pieces are hand-blown glass or mouth-blown. There will likely be small imperfections, like air bubbles, because of the way the colors are layered.
These decorative glass pieces are made by Murano masters, or highly skilled glass artisans in Murano, Italy who use bright colors. Murano Islands: Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. It lies about 1.5 kilometres (1 mile) north of Venice and measures about 1.5 km (1 mi) across with a population of just over 5,000 (2004 figures). It is famous for its glass making.
 
WHAT IS SOMMERSO TECHNIQUE?
One of the most common techniques is Sommerso, which in Italian literally means submerged. This technique is used to create several layers of glass (usually with different contrasting colors) inside a single object, giving the illusion of immersed colors that lay on top of each other without mixing. This is done by uniting different layers of glass through heat and repeatedly immersing them in pots of molten colored glass. This technique is quite recognizable: it is characterized by an outer layer of colorless glass and thick layers of colored glass inside it, as if a big drop of color had been captured inside the transparent glass. When one first sees these objects, it seems almost impossible to conceive such beautiful colors being locked so perfectly inside what would seem solid glass, and then undoubtedly one begins to wonder how ever did they manage to achieve such a complex game of shapes and colors right in the middle of a clear glass object.

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