A Bollicine, no. 11016
Carlo Scarpa Italian
Manufacturer Venini & Co., Murano, Italy, established 1921 Italian
Not on view
Between 1932 and 1947, Carlo Scarpa worked closely with Paolo Venini and other master glassblowers to pioneer techniques, silhouettes, and colors that thoroughly modernized the ancient traditions of the glass-making Venetian island Murano. New methods of surface decoration were invented and each vessel is named for the techniques employed in their making, emphasizing the fact that experimentation was crucial to producing such a dazzling array of visual and material effects.
This bollicine glass derives its name from the numerous small air bubbles that pepper the form. Bubbles are produced by injecting the glass with potassium nitrate, a salt compound that, when heated, frees carbon dioxide. Scarpa drew from East Asian art for his bollicine glass, as in this example, which resembles a piece of green Chinese jade.
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