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If the origins of the artistic murrina can now be traced back to the year 1000 B.C., in the north-west of Iran (where for the first time a glass-maker produced a glass with five human figures and an animal), the technique of murrino glass was destined to soon disappear from the Egyptian, Greek and Roman furnaces, ousted by the more economical blown glass.
To find it on Murano, we have to wait until the second half of the XV century when Maria Barovier's furnace gave birth to the rosetta bead, which was also used - by incorporating it when hot - to decorate small vases. Then there was another dormant period until 1830 when the craftsman Domenico Bussolin created the Millefiori rods and set them side by side with the traditional filigree ones.
Nevertheless, another decade was to pass before the bead-makers Giovanni Battista and Giacomo Franchini invented a series of creations and portraits so as to inaugurate the "trend" of the modern artistic murrina. Using the typical techniques of their trade, the Franchinis worked the rods with the help of the flame and small moulds, gradually adding rods to make increasingly more complex patterns. The figured murrine by the two bead-makers date from between 1843 and 1863.
However, the person who was to bring the production of the murrina back to the most typical of the Murano work places, that is to say the furnace, was Vincenzo Moretti (1835-1901). He was to hand down the tradition to his son Luigi (1867-1946) and - through the latter - to his grandson Ulderico (1892-1956) who was to become the father of Giusy Moretti. The work of the Moretti family - as regards the artistic murrine - can be dated between 1873 and 1924. Finally, we must mention the murrine made between 1915 and 1924 by another great master, Giuseppe Barovier (1853-1942). Therefore the artistic murrine which are part of the Giusy Moretti inheritance, are today considered genuine, unique collector's items.
To find it on Murano, we have to wait until the second half of the XV century when Maria Barovier's furnace gave birth to the rosetta bead, which was also used - by incorporating it when hot - to decorate small vases. Then there was another dormant period until 1830 when the craftsman Domenico Bussolin created the Millefiori rods and set them side by side with the traditional filigree ones.
Nevertheless, another decade was to pass before the bead-makers Giovanni Battista and Giacomo Franchini invented a series of creations and portraits so as to inaugurate the "trend" of the modern artistic murrina. Using the typical techniques of their trade, the Franchinis worked the rods with the help of the flame and small moulds, gradually adding rods to make increasingly more complex patterns. The figured murrine by the two bead-makers date from between 1843 and 1863.
However, the person who was to bring the production of the murrina back to the most typical of the Murano work places, that is to say the furnace, was Vincenzo Moretti (1835-1901). He was to hand down the tradition to his son Luigi (1867-1946) and - through the latter - to his grandson Ulderico (1892-1956) who was to become the father of Giusy Moretti. The work of the Moretti family - as regards the artistic murrine - can be dated between 1873 and 1924. Finally, we must mention the murrine made between 1915 and 1924 by another great master, Giuseppe Barovier (1853-1942). Therefore the artistic murrine which are part of the Giusy Moretti inheritance, are today considered genuine, unique collector's items.
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The Cock's Egg
The personal design of the jewellery and the refinement of the gold work represent the frame of these rare and peerless murrinas, for their beauty and great value, realized between 1873 and 1924.
The murrinas contain an incomparable historic and artistic value and they are set side by side with noble materials, such as gold, and precious stones that reflect their light and create original models, unique pieces as unique and in a very limited number are these small glass masterpieces.
Brooches, rings, bracelets, earrings, cuff'links and necklaces are designed and created by hand, keeping in mind the subject they will contain.
The Cock's Egg
Giusy Moretti and her Murrine (1873-1924)
Giusy Moretti - who will always remain bound to her father Ulderico and to his work - loves to tell how, when she was a child, she was given a cardboard box containing these small, brightly coloured, wonderful glass miniatures, the fruit of the her father's, grandfather's and great-grandfather's work.
The transition from childish games to the world's art galleries was certainly not automatic: setting the "gems of Italian artisan art" into frameworks of gold and precious stones - thus creating an amazing and absolutely new collection of jewellery - was the result of professional maturity deriving from a deep, unending love of her family's wor
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