Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso early Porpora glass dish with gold inclusions. This lovely glass dish or bowl comes from a series commenced in 1954, colored in pink or purple by means of coloring the glass without melting technique and decorated with fragments of gold leaf.
Incised signature on underside Ercole Barovier 24/12/68.
Exhibitions:
Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, Venice, 1982
Ecole Barovier 1889-1974, Museo Correr, Venice, 1989
Mille anni di arte del vetro a Venezia, exh. cat., Albrizzi, 1982, p. 289, cat. 583
Attilia Dorigato, ed., Ercole Barovier 1889-1974: Vetraio Muranese, exh. cat., Venice, Museo Correr, Venice, 1989, p. 107, cat. 98
Marina Barovier, ed., Art of the Barovier: Glassmakers in Murano 1866-1972, exh. cat., Arsenale Editrice, 2007, p. 185