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Article: VIENNESE GLASS DESIGN 1895-1925.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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Venice and Bohemia have long been rival centers of fine glassmaking in Europe, and each reached its greatest height in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While many styles of glassware were manufactured in bath places, the production and tradition of the two centers were quite different. In the Venetian republic the glass industry was clustered on the small island of Murano. Venice specialized in a kind of soda glass distinguished by its lightness and ductility. Blown to a miraculous thinness, this glass could, in its molten state, be drawn and twisted into elaborate shapes; colored canes were sometimes inserted to create lacy lattices or millet ion patterns. ...