A sculptural table lamp in Murano glass and gold leaf by Ercole Barovier, 1940s.

Conditon: Glass is in excellent condition. Re-wired for UK and can be supplied for US or EU.

Ercole Barovier began his personal aesthetic transition toward modernism in the 1930s with his Primavera series of vases - idiosyncratic milky-white and clear glass filled with tiny bubbles and hairline interior fissures that he produced for Artisti Barovier, a firm headed by his father and uncle. Later, with Barovier Toso, explored novel styles such as the mosaic-like Pezatto glass; fluid Spiral patterns; pebbly textured Barbarico line and the complex, layered and highly coloured abstractions of the Oriente series of vases and bowls. Barovier Toso - still under family control - has produced one of the finest and most diverse catalogues of Murano glass in the last 100 years.