Venetian art nouveau glass

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2000 by Sheldon Barr

(9.) The well-known term latticino, used until recently to describe vetro a retorti, has been exposed as a nineteenth-century invention. Vetro a retorti is produced by softening tightly packed parallel canes of clear glass incorporating twisted spirals of milk glass on a marver. Other glass colors and aventurine were often incorporated. Then a layer of softened glass, the pelle, is placed over the softened filigree canes and fused to them. The resulting mass is returned to the furnace and rolled several times on the marver to flatten the canes before being blown into the desired shape.

(10.) Esposizione di scelti artistici ed oggetti affini in Mumano. Relazione dei giurati (Venice, 1895), p. 19.

(11.) Rosa Barovier Mentasi, " Dai Soffiati "in stile antico" ai "tipi carichi di bestiacce,'" in Draghi, Serpenti e Mostri Marini nel Vetro di Murano dell'800 [Dragons, Serpents, and Sea Monsters in 19th-Century Murano Glass] (Junck and Gianolla, Venice, 1997), p. 11.

(12.) M. A. Wallace-Dunlop, " Modern Venetian Glass and Its Manufacture," Magazine of Art, April 1890.