Vintage Amber Tre Fuochi Murano Hand Blown Decanter 4 Glasses Venetian Glass Set

Vintage Amber Tre Fuochi Murano Hand Blown Decanter 4 Glasses Venetian Glass Set. Beautiful amber base color with 24K gold and enamel applied flower design in "Tre Fuochi" style. Glasses are 1 3/4" tall and 1 3/4" diameter at top rim.

Decanter is 3 1/2 diameter at widest point. Decanter is 6 1/2" tall - decanter only and 8 3/4" tall - decanter with stopper. This is an absolutely stunning set! An example of expensive glassware is gold-leaf and enamel-decorated Murano Glass made in a rare technique called Tre Fuochi, which means "three flames" or "triple-firing" in Italian.

This technique hails from the opulence of the eighteenth century Venice where many wealthy Venetians and foreigners sought out exclusive tableware to show off their elite status at dinners and balls. Tre Fuochi technique involves lots of expensive 24 karat gold and painstaking manual work of painting gold leaf and enamels on the glassware.

The process is split into three stages. First, intricate gold leaf decoration is applied by hand to the colored glasses, goblets, carafes, bowls, or vases.

Then the glassware goes into the special furnace which is heated up to the point when the gold permanently bonds with the glass. After that in another manual decorating session, various enamels are handcrafted on the glass, usually in the form of flowers, leaves, or abstract elaborate decorative elements, and then the glassware goes into the furnace again to make the enamel fuse with the gold and the glass.

In the end, the final decorative touches are added by hand and the glass goes into the furnace for the third and last time to ensure complete fusion. Then the glass undergoes gradual cooling to ensure it won't shatter from stress. This item is in the category "Pottery & Glass\Drinkware & Barware\Decanters". The seller is "thefabfourjays" and is located in this country: US.

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• Style: Art Nouveau
• Material: Glass
• Original/Reproduction: Vintage Original
• Features: Hand Painted
• Type: Decanter
• Color: Amber
• Glassmaking Technique: Hand Blown
• Type of Glass: Blown Glass
• Subject/Theme: Flower
• Brand: Murano
• City of Origin: Murano
• Country/Region of Origin: Italy
• Production Style: Art Glass
• Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy

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