Tiny lampworked bottle made of luminous white spun glass which has been wound around a glass core. Its surface decoration presents a string of floral and an aventurine thread forming the word Venezia and the date 1907. The cap is a pin with a round glass head. It retains the original red cotton tassel.
Period
1900/1940
Murano, VE (Italy), 1907
glass
4 cm
COD.
149
These fragile looking lampworked bottles below remind me of glossy pulled taffy. They are a luminous white spun glass which has been wound around a glass core. Their surface decoration varied between polychrome trailed glass filigree strings of floral or ornamental scrolled motifs, applied globs of glass, to crimped stringing, or threading which has been formed to spell out the name of a city.Some souvenir bottles can be found with “Venice” applied on the side in thinly wrapped glass thread. These bottles seem to have very simple closures, usually a cork stopper suspended from a brass chain and held in place by a single wire ring wrapped around the neck of the bottle.
