White Lace Emerald Green to Clear Vintage Hand Blown Italian Murano high quality Glass Pinched Bowl with polished pontil

Stunning Hand Blown Italian Murano Glass Bowl featuring pulled white lace panels complemented with emerald green to clear in an undulating ruffled rim bowl with a raised center and polished pontail on the underside, has impressive color and superb lines and great form and would make a fabulous gift or addition to any fine household or collection.

DETAILS:
- SIZE: 90 mm. / 3-1/2 In. Width. x 25 mm. / 1 In. Height.
- CONDITION: Excellent, no chips, breaks, repairs or restorations.

BACKGROUND:
The Murano crystal contains sodium and manganese instead of lead. For this reason, unlike the Bohemian and English crystals that contain - in different doses - lead oxide, the manganese crystal requires a completely different processing in which glass must be kept warm for decoration: high quality the sodium, calcium, and manganese dioxide used make it more suitable for a long and complex manual processing.

The lead crystal has excellent qualities but is hard in hot working and is more easily malleable when cold. On the contrary, Murano crystal is softer when hot and rigid whilst cold: the processing must be carried out when the glass is still hot.

From this peculiarity comes the magic of Murano crystal: processing takes more time, the shape can be changed at will, the possibility to include other elements such as colours, gold leaves, sbruffi (placing a number of coloured glass layers one on top of the other). While English and Bohemian crystals are recognizable by the geometric perfection of forms and the purity of glass, Murano crystal stands out because of the colour, the plasticity, its shapes: the artist's soul enters in the product.