Strauss & co - 7 March 2011, Cape Town

44 69 A ‘Laguna’ glass vase, Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso, 1935-36 the thick-walled vessel with moulded flared rim and ribbed sides, fused with deep green inclusions and raised on a circular clear glass foot, 33cm high R18 000– 24 000 70 A ‘Mugnoni’ glass vase, designed by Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso, 1938 the iridescent thick-walled fluted body moulded with large irregular bubbled blobs, small bruise, 34cm high R12 000– 15 000 69 70 LITERATURE “From the mid-1930’s Ercole Barovier generated new designs at a prodigious rate. Autumno, Laguna, and Marina Gemmato (1935-6) were inspired by gemstones and and were coloured burnt gold, azure, and deep blue respectively. In these pieces, Barovier used the technique of colorazione a caldo senza fusione , meaning “colouring the glass while hot without melting”which involved sprinkling coloured glass fragments or powdered enamels on to the marver and then collecting them on the molten gather, producing glass with a speckled appearance.” Lesley Jackson, 20th Century Factory Glass, Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000, p 26