In cities from London to Istanbul, monarchs spent the 16th and 17th centuries delighting in the hand-blown glass emerging from the island of Murano in Venice. There, artisans had elevated glassmaking ...

View Murano Salviati hand-blown glass vase (Circa 1980s) By Gaspari Luciano; Hand-Blown Glass; 25,5 x 20 cm; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

A new generation of artisans is adding to the long history of the Italian craft, known for its strange shapes, odd colors and secretive techniques. Contemporary Murano-inspired works, clockwise from ...

Jessica Vincent fondly remembers embarking on frequent thrifting trips - at secondhand stores, yard sales, flea markets - with her mother as a child. It's a habit she retained into adulthood, and one ...

A Virginia woman's casual vase shopping at her local Goodwill led her to unknowingly find one of the rarest Italian pieces of art - now sold for over $100,000. Jessica Vincent, 43, was scouring her ...

The Getty shop justifies a colorful goblet’s $45 price tag by noting that it hails from the Venetian island of Murano, “famous for its highly prized, collectible glass.” Walmart writes that a $57.95 ...

At the third edition of the Venice Glass Week, which opened this weekend, more than 180 initiatives were planned to celebrate Venice’s most famous craft, which was first conceived in the neighboring ...

When Jessica Vincent spotted a large, candy-cane coloured vase on a Goodwill store shelf, it was love at first sight. But she had no idea the thrift store vase she bought for $3.99 US ($5.34 Cdn) was, ...

At Louise Trotter’s Bottega Veneta debut this weekend, we were not only entranced by the collection on the runway, but also the rows of jewel-like hand-blown Murano glass stools lining it. Cuboid in ...