MURANO LABELS

Below is a collection of Murano labels to help you recognise your pieces.  Please scroll the mouse over the image for information.

  

 





















  






This is a label that I consider to be fake and often seen on some of the chinese clowns...





Venetian Glass history and background labels

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Venetian Glass First Born Nearly Ten Centuries Ago
Almost 1,000 years ago on the tiny Venetian island of Murano Venetian Glass was produced by man for the first time.

From that moment on, Venetian Glass with its crystaline majesty has intrigued and aroused the instinct for beauty from King to artisan.  Through the splender of the Venetian Republic... the Renaissance... and the Middle Ages, the popularity of Venetian Glass has grown and flourished.

The complexity and special creative skill necessary for the creation of this unique product has through the years kept its production a father-to-son secret.

Complicated Process Marks Production of Murano Glass
The first skill in the making of Venetian Glass is the correct and proper mixture of an assortment of raw materials that combine to make the 'doow' which is the basic incandescent material used.  The second major skill is the blowing and the shaping of the incandescent glass, which at best, must be controlled simultaneously by several workers who watch both shape and temperature.

Decor of Venetian Glass an Art in Itself
The justly famed decorations that design the Venetian Glass with Gold powder and intriguing colours is another skill of precision and beauty, wrought by special hand tools... and fingers nearly a thousand years young.

Rare Skill Climaxes Birth of Venetian Glass
The last and most delicate operation is the final detachment of Venetian Glass creation from the iron blower-stick.  Next a gradual cooling in a furnace... and from then on the production is ready to be shipped to connoisseurs all over the world.