Condition: Used,Brand: ArtGlass,Type: Vase,Country of Origin: Italy A large Venetian art glass vase designed by Alfredo Barbini for Vetreria Alfredo Barbini ca. 1960s. Thick ribbed and twisted glass with coral red ribbons and gold foil inclusions. An authentic piece of Murano art glass of the 1960s in excellent condition. Rests of retailer paper lable Markus (?) Piazza San Marco on the base. Alfredo Barbini (1912 - 2007) attended to the Abate Zanetti glass design school at the age of ten and worked at the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso, Cristalleria di Murano and at the Zecchin-Martinuzzi furnace. In the early 1930s he became master craftsman at V.A.M.S.A. He executed works designed by the painter Luigi Scarpa Croce, such as the dish with fishes exhibited at the 1942 Biennale di Venezia. In 1946 he moved to Gino Cenedese & C as partner and director. At the 1948 Biennale, he exhibited an outstanding series of sculptures with the surface corroded with acid: "Collasso", "Putto", "Diana Nera". In 1950 he started his own glass workshop the Vetreria Alfredo Barbini. Several works of Barbini are of outstanding importance for the muranese glass art as there are the Sasso, Scavo, Inciso, Sommerso or the Ad Agnelli objects. width: 6.69 inches height: 12.20 inches depth: 6.69 inches