CategoriesTableware, Vessels, and Objects
Glass Objects
Vessels, sculpture and decorative objects in glass, shaped by blowing, casting, cutting and enamelling from antiquity to the studio glass movement.
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Glassblowing was invented along the eastern Mediterranean coast in the 1st century BC and quickly made glass common across the Roman world. Venice moved its glassmakers to the island of Murano in 1291, and there in the 15th century Angelo Barovier developed a clear glass called cristallo. Bohemian cutters later answered with brilliant faceted glass.
Around 1900 glass became a leading art form. Émile Gallé carved layered cameo glass with plants and insects, Louis Comfort Tiffany developed iridescent Favrile glass, and the Bohemian firm Loetz produced shimmering vases. In the 1920s Maurice Marinot worked thick glass with trapped bubbles and acid, and from 1932 Carlo Scarpa experimented with textures at Venini. Small furnaces from the 1960s let artists blow glass in their own studios, and today Josiah McElheny uses glass to reflect on the history of modernism. Look for pontil marks, bubbles, weight and how light passes through.
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