Alfredo Barbini (Italian, 1912-2007). Large hand-blown Murano art glass vase in lavender and burgundy wine colored bulbous body. In the cluthra glass blown style with layers of trapped bubbles. Barbini is one of Muranos leading figures of the twentieth century. His parents were members of families which had been prominent in the glassmaking industry on Murano for generations as glassblowers and beadmakers. Barbini began his long career in 1925 at the age of 13, working in the S.A.I.A.R. Ferro Toso factory. In 1929 he joined Cristalleria di Venezia e Murano as a master glassblower. He left that firm in 1932 for employment with a glass workshop in Milan, but returned to Murano to work first at the newly formed Zecchin & Martinuzzi firm and then with Seguso Vetri d'Arte. From 1936 to 1944 he was a partner and master glassblower at Societa Anonima Vetri Artistici Murano, known as S.A.V.A.M. Following World War II Barbini worked as master glassblower and designer successively with Archimede Seguso and Napoleone Martinuzzi. He became a partner with Veteria Vistosi and Gino Cendese. With financial assistance from the firm of Salviati & Co., for whom he produced products, he formed his own glass firm, Vetreria Alfredo Barbini in 1950 (reorganized in 1983 as Alfredo Barbini Srl). He exhibited his work at the Venice Biennales from 1950 to 1961. Etched signature, Barbini, Murano towards bottom of body. Dimensions: 10" high x 9" diameter at widest point. Condition: Very good, no chips, breaks.

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