Italian Art- Glassware

Add a touch of Italian art with this colorful murano glassware. Perfect for a garden luncheon or a day at the beach, it holds your beverage of choice while adding a pop of color to any tablespace. A great conversation piece, bringing joy and function to any occasion.

       Items:

• Murano Glass Pitcher by Alessandro Coppola (made in Italy)
  
• (2) Handmade Murano Goblets (made in Italy)
  

*This gift includes complimentary gift wrap and greeting card with hand written message

About Murano Glass

For centuries murano has conserved the art of glass with jealous closeness, to the point that in the ancient Serenissima Republic of Venice, nobody was allowed to leave the island of murano without official permission.

Although its tradition has been handed down from generation to generation for centuries, from Master to “garzonetto”, father to son, the history of venetian glass working has evolved in a manner that contunies to respect the true traditions, and integral customs of the land, and its history. This has carried to the present day the true largeness and beauty of the works of glass created on the island of Murano.

It is therefore impossible to describe just how and why this art is fascinating, its presentation would demand attention, and knowledge. We will try to give a short description of some of the more important points for those who are interested in knowing more of this wonderful and unique art. It is for this reason that we will start our description of Murano Glass with a poem from the book “Il Fuoco” by the famous poet Gabriele D'Annunzio:

“The work proceededs feverishly around the furnace. At the top of the irons for blowning the fused glass swelled, snaking, became silver like a little cloud, shone like the moon, burst, was divided in the thousand thinnest, crackling, rutilanti fragments, more meager of the threads that are looked at morning time in the forests between branch and  branch. The craftsmen modeled the harmonious goblets, everyone obeying in operating to a rhythm its just generated from the quality of the matter and the custom of the moviments apt to dominate it. The "garzoni", they placed one small burning paste pear in the points indicates from the masters and the pear grew tall, was twisted, changed in a handle, a lip, a spout, a stem, one base. The flush under the devises was dispersed little little; and the rising goblet was exposed again to the flame, drived in canes; then it was malleable, ductile, sensitive feature to most tenuous touches that they adorned it, that refined it, than they rendered it in compliance with the model transmitted from  ancestors or to the free invention of the new creator. The human gestures were extraordinarily agile and light around  those elegant creatures of the fire, the blown and the iron, like the gestures of a silent dance .”