Art Glass Vase in the Style of Dino Martens Murano

This exceptional mid-century Murano? art glass vase was designed in the style of the famous Italian modernist artist Dino Martens for the renowned glassworks Aureliano Toso circa 1952. Exemplifying Martens’ celebrated and highly collectible Oriente technique, the vase is crafted using a complex patchwork assembly of vibrant yellow, cobalt blue, and ruby red glass powders layered over a translucent white opaline core (vetro incamiciato). The striking colour fields are interwoven with intricate networks of over-stretched, shredded zanfirico lace filigree and accented by bold, fluid ribbons of opaque black glass that contain shimmering inclusions of suspended copper avventurina flakes. Its flattened, asymmetrical oval silhouette tapers gently to a large, matte-ground satin base—a classic hallmark of authentic, hand-blown post-war Venetian mastery