3 Vintage Hand Blown Murano Glass Silver Overlay Blue 4.5 Jug Pitcher Creamer

Wonderful example of a Murano creamer/jug/pitcher with a wonderful hand painted silver overlay design. A beautiful addition to the kitchen and a real talking point at any table!

All are in excellent vintage condition, with no cracks or chips and still have the orignal Murano Stickers. You will note some bubbles/blobs in the glass - these are not faults, but simply part of the wonderful glass making process. There really are in excellent condition. They have been very well loved! Murano glass has a long and fabulous history. The origins of glassmaking in Venice goes back to the times of the Roman Empire when moulded glass was used for illumination in bathhouses. Murano glass is renowned as the prominent glass-manufacturing centre as early as the 8th century. One of the earliest furnaces for glass on a Venetian island, dating from the 8th century, was discovered by archaeologists in 1960! Murano is really known at the glassblowing capital of the world - and this piece is a lovely example of this! Most of the techniques of depositing the silver involve painting the design onto the glass with flux containing silver mixed with turpentine, firing this design in a kiln, cooling and cleaning the glass and then immersing it in a solution of silver through which a tiny electric current was passed.

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