Ermanno Toso

1903 Murano - 1973 Murano

  • Title Vase murrine redentore
  • Date Murano, c. 1955
  • Dimensions Height 32 cm
  • Signature Adhesive label of the manufacture Fratelli Toso, Murano, on the lower bowl
  • Provenance Sample collection manufactory Fratelli Toso; Private Collection Southern Germany
  • Provenance Designed by Ermanno Toso, around 1955 Manufactured by Fratelli Toso
  • Literature Heiremans/Toso, Fratelli Toso Murano 1902 - 1980, Stuttgart 2018, p. 124 - similar technique
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Colourless glass with onlaid murrine with small molten glass sections of dark blue glass and stylized flowers - redentore - of white, blue, green, red, pink, and orange glass. Prefabricated glass rod cut into discs shaped into a vase, modeled after the antique "vase murrine" using the mosaic glass technique. Acid-etched surface, cut basal globe. On lower bowl: adhesive label from the Fratelli Toso manufacture, Murano. Height 32 cm.