Aesthetic and functionality combined in one product, Murano glass goblets are rigorously handmade by the glass masters in the prestigious island’s furnaces. This vitreous matter has slowly transformed into one of the most renowned artworks of the lagoon tradition. The Venetian goblet/tipetto is, actually something more than a simple chalice. With good fortune throughout the centuries, its productive process has kept its phases unchanged, despite the improvement given by the modern technologies. It is a fragment of history that can confer to a laid table such added value that only art is able to enhance.
But how is the Murano glass goblet or tipetto realized?
1. Generally, all begins with a sketch – a fascinating projection of the Master’s inspiration which from the creative tops of his head flows in a drawing shape on a paper through a pencil, or rather more suggestively through chalk on a stool or metal table.
2. The Master put the proper quantity of melted glass, gathering it around the extremity of a hollow metal rod (process similar to the one of stick and cotton candy) and blowing into the opposite extremity in order to obtain a little malleable sphere.
3. With quick touches of a nipper, the Master expertly shapes this first vitreous agglomerate and through the help of a colleague – in dialect called servente or serventin – who gets to the master little quantities of melted glass with another rod, he creates some decoration in elevation around the incandescent sphere.
4. The servente gets closed to the Master keeping in front of himself his metal rod with melted glass in the extremity and the Master – using a nipper for looking better after the assistant links the matter offered by the sphere, properly heated for being accommodating. Here, for a few moments the processing sphere is linked to two metal rods at the same time.
5. Then, the Master separates his rod from the vitreous matter, pick the one of the assistant and by using a bit metal nipper, he literally opens the sphere broadening the hole leaving by the rod. Thus, thanks to the expert touch of the hand, the tipetto’s cup is created.
6. Both the Master and assistant, in careful synergy, work for shaping the stem. Working with nipper and big scissor, they prepare the ornaments which will be integrated into the stem (for example curved leaves and flowers) and, once the thin supporting structure is ready, they connect the priors to the latter.
1. Generally, all begins with a sketch – a fascinating projection of the Master’s inspiration which from the creative tops of his head flows in a drawing shape on a paper through a pencil, or rather more suggestively through chalk on a stool or metal table.
2. The Master put the proper quantity of melted glass, gathering it around the extremity of a hollow metal rod (process similar to the one of stick and cotton candy) and blowing into the opposite extremity in order to obtain a little malleable sphere.
3. With quick touches of a nipper, the Master expertly shapes this first vitreous agglomerate and through the help of a colleague – in dialect called servente or serventin – who gets to the master little quantities of melted glass with another rod, he creates some decoration in elevation around the incandescent sphere.
4. The servente gets closed to the Master keeping in front of himself his metal rod with melted glass in the extremity and the Master – using a nipper for looking better after the assistant links the matter offered by the sphere, properly heated for being accommodating. Here, for a few moments the processing sphere is linked to two metal rods at the same time.
5. Then, the Master separates his rod from the vitreous matter, pick the one of the assistant and by using a bit metal nipper, he literally opens the sphere broadening the hole leaving by the rod. Thus, thanks to the expert touch of the hand, the tipetto’s cup is created.
6. Both the Master and assistant, in careful synergy, work for shaping the stem. Working with nipper and big scissor, they prepare the ornaments which will be integrated into the stem (for example curved leaves and flowers) and, once the thin supporting structure is ready, they connect the priors to the latter.
7. The only part missing is the base of the tipetto, the support of the chalice. The third and last component is obtained putting the proper quantity of vitreous matter on the free extremity of the stem while the other end is still secured to the metal rod. After having moulded the added glassy part making it a spherical form through the rounding movement of the rod, the nipper is used again similarly to the process of the cup.The sphere is rapidly broadened in order to obtain a shape close to a trunk of a dug cone.
8. To the stem-base block as such is linked the cup already realised and thus, through the magical dance of the mind, eye and hand, the Master extracts a perfectly made Murano’s tipetto from the shapeless matter. The goblet is a model of the glass art into which each element created is able to reinvent – in an absolute unique manner – a charm that persists immutable throughout the centuries.
8. To the stem-base block as such is linked the cup already realised and thus, through the magical dance of the mind, eye and hand, the Master extracts a perfectly made Murano’s tipetto from the shapeless matter. The goblet is a model of the glass art into which each element created is able to reinvent – in an absolute unique manner – a charm that persists immutable throughout the centuries.
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