GX1993.271

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 50; Larghezza: 21

vetro colorato- soffiatura

The son of a Murano glassmaker, Zecchin attended the Accademia di Venezia, later devoting himself not only to painting but also to the applied arts: from glass to mosaics, from embroidery to tapestries, from furniture to ceramics. In 1912 he began his collaboration with Teodoro Wolf Ferrari, an artist trained within the Munich Secession, with whom he exhibited in Munich in 1913 and at the Venice Biennale in 1914 a series of small plates and Murrini vases made by the Barovier Artists. Dating from the same period is this vase, decorated with murrine, a technique dating back to Roman times that involved the preliminary preparation of a glass rod, composed of concentric layers of dear colours, which was subsequently cut into small segments. This vase is reminiscent of another significant piece of Zecchin's artistic production, preserved at the Wolfsoniana: the black lacquered oak sideboard with gilded carvings depicting fish on a seabed. Oblong coloured glass vase decorated with small spirals and geometric motifs.