$375.00

Our prices are in AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS- AU$375 (or about $287 American). INTERNATIONAL postage from North BRISBANE is available at cost price plus $3 for packing materials & boxing. We regularly visit an electrical store and take away their used packing material before it ends up as landfill. This listing also appears for people wishing to sell a piece of this calibre through iNVISeDGE. (13% commission fee for regular sellers of decorative arts pieces. 18.5% for one-off sellers.) Use the links below.

 

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This listing is for the sinewy green “freeform” piece only! $375 AUSTRALIAN dollars (about $287 AMERICAN).

Can be posted worldwide at cost price plus $3 for boxing and getting it to a post office.

Background Info and Provenance

A piece of vintage Italian art-glass from the Murano region (Venice, Italy). I’ve held onto this one for 8 years hoping to find a definitive maker. I’ve Googled it at least 20 times over 8 years and can’t find another one … dohh! I believe it was done by Fulvio Bianconi. I have a strong feeling about this but at this point, I can’t identify the piece definitively. I can however attribute it to Fulvio Bianconi and this attribution is based on about 20-years in this trade. You take my attribution as being accurate or not. If you’d like to open a constructive commentary about the piece, please do. If you are coming from a position of wanting or needing to destroy my confidence, my Admin Assistant has been instructed to delete your communication immediately.

The first reason I think it’s by Fulvio Bianconi is because it has been HAND-worked by an expert. The workmanship and “flow” is second to none here- this is an extraordinarily fluid and expressive thing. The sinewy, biomorphic shape just grabs you and demands you to take a closer look. It’s obvious this piece has been hand-crafted and that the hole has been worked whilst the glass was still hot (and by someone at the height of their game). How the artist has achieved this is beyond me but mark my words it couldn’t be easy creating something like this by hand (out of molten glass)!

To my knowledge Bianconi was the first artist ever to experiment with this design idea (with holes in art-glass), therefore Bianconi pieces like this fetch pretty prices- see the screenshots provided. One of the screenshots included is $5000 USD (approx. $6500 AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS- 2021). The piece screenshotted for US$5000 sold through 1stdibs the last time I sold a piece like this through iNVISeDGE (back in 2014).

The second reason I feel it’s by Fulvio Bianconi is because of the colour. Fulvio Bianconi created a LOT of art glass in this colour including his famous “Pezzato” designs (which are also landmark pieces of designs by this talented creator). See the screenshots provided (NONE of Bianconi’s pieces are cheap)! The colour is identical to what Bianconi used- it is my understanding that the Master artists created their own colours with oxide powders. Artists mix in varying amounts of oxides to create “signature” colours. I would label this colour as a signature Bianconi colour- you don’t really see it on other Murano art glass from the era. The other reason I’ve singled this out as being by Bianconi is because I have another piece in this design at home and to be quite blunt it’s ugly. I bought it online via ebay (bady-lit photos) years AFTER I’d fallen in love with the piece in this listing. When this other one came up on ebay, I had to have it (as I still had not been able to bring myself to list this one because of how much I was mesmerized by it). The ebay piece came in and I was shocked by how ugly it was. It’s obvious that a piece like the one shown in this listing was put in front of an artist in China and they were told to copy it. The other one is clumsy, badly-executed … in short, just WRONG! I wanted my money back. It was sold via ebay as a VINTAGE Murano piece. It certainly wasn’t Murano and most likely a modern-day Chinese replica. I had learnt years ago there’s no point fighting ebay about anything. eBay does whatever they want. As a seller, ebay have NEVER ruled in my favour (despite the fact many of my cases were buyers targeting “high-end” sellers and SCAMMING them). As an ebay buyer, (I buy under a different ebay user-name), ebay have virtually NEVER ruled in my favour either (only because they know it’s me). Anyway, I digress but this story is needed because the COLOUR of the Chinese replica is soooo wrong! It’s an ugly colour and completely different to the classy, sophisticated colour here.

This is my attribution only (until an expert comes forward and renounces what I’ve said). You may be saying, “well, if it is by Fulvio Bianconi, it should be signed.” Errrrrr … wrong! Many artists didn’t sign a lot of their work (particularly the Master creators like Bianconi). Whilst they are still trying to perfect a new concept, they don’t sign pieces but still sell them through their galleries to collectors and lovers of their work). The Masters usually only have them produced by a glass factory AFTER they’d mastered the concept and taught the makers at the factory how to re-do what they created. (The pieces coming out of the factory as then tagged with the factory name on them eg. Venini, Seguso, and usually NOT the designers.) I believe this piece is experimental but make no mistake; it’s an exceptional piece of art by a MASTER. I truly don’t believe it was done by an Australian Master (that concept is quite laughable really). To my knowledge there were no glass artists creating work back in the 1950’s like this. To me, it has to be ITALIAN- all the Masters creating pieces like this were in Italy at the time this was created.

Please take what has been written above with your own discretion. If this piece speaks to you (like it does me) then by all means mull over it, imagine it in your collection, mull over it some more, do additional research- do what you need to do but understand that I’ve held onto this piece for 8 years for a reason (because as someone with experience and a strong intuitive understanding of the business, I know it’s exceptional and very likely to be worth thousands). I only have to put it next to the clumsy modern-day replica to know without a doubt this is “the real deal”. I will have to donate the ugly one to a charity shop (which I paid good money for!)- money and time down the drain. I may take photos of the ugly-one beforehand. I have bills to pay like everyone else so may not have the time to.

Art-glass created by the hands and hearts of artists is unmistakable the second you lay eyes on it. These pieces hold a creative moment in time that can never be recreated. When someone is creating something new and exciting, it is unmissable. When someone is creating something with their heart and hands in a masterful way, it screams at you to connect with it with your own heart and hands. These hand-created pieces have an intrinsic (and monetary) value that will live on forever (if you look after your piece and that’s not hard for a piece like this. This is very robust, solid glass.) Watch the value of this one skyrocket the second more information about it’s maker and history comes to hand. This is a piece I doubt you’ll see again and if you’ve read this far, you KNOW it’s a very astute investment piece (if it’s ever found out that it is a Bianconi piece it’s worth thousands). My “feeling” about special pieces is spot-on. If I feel that a piece is special, in 99.9% of cases it is! Actually, maybe I should put 100% there because if I’m not certain a piece is exceptional, I will donate it to charity, it’s as simple as that. ONLY the special pieces appear in iNVISeDGE. The rest go to charity or I sell them under a 3rd ebay user-name I use to offload the pieces that are not right for iNVISeDGE.

(Thanks to anyone who read this far!)

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This piece is in excellent vintage condition. NO chips, NO cracks, NO repairs. It’s vintage so has minor signs of use but nothing that’s noticed at all. It has very feint clouding inside if you want to be a nit-picker! (I’ve never noticed this before- because of the dark colour- and I’ve had this piece for 8 years). ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sinewy Green with one hole. Measurements. Height- 30.5cm. Across- about 12.5cm at its widest. Weight- 881 grams. Read my 1200+ feedback comments (ALL for vintage furniture and decorative arts SALES- well over 100 from repeat customers). This is your guarantee that I strive to describe all my items as accurately as I can and I will not stock items unless they are in excellent condition.
PICK-UP . . . from 30 or 40 minutes North of BRISBANE city is accepted but postage is preferred as my home is hard to find. Because of this I will nominate a friend or family member for you to collect the item from if you need collection. Pick-up in person must be worked out prior to purchase- thank you. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ POSTAGE is offered internationally. All our Decorative Arts pieces are delivered through AUSTRALIA POST. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ POSTAGE ESTIMATES. . . . ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ To BRISBANE- most of our pieces cost $15 - $18 to send. . . To SYDNEY or MELBOURNE- Small Vase- around $20 - $23, Medium Vase- around $20 - $25, Large Vase- around $24 - $30. Let us know if you need an EXACT COST for postage prior to purchase. The above postage estimates include $2.95 for a signature on delivery. . . INSURANCE against being lost or broken in transit up to the value of $200 is included in the estimates above. If your vase is cheaper or more expensive than $200 this will effect your postage fee slightly. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ A BOXING FEE of $3.00 is included in the fee above to cover the cost of searching for and storing used packing materials. With the millions of cardboard boxes that end up as landfill every year we don’t believe in supporting the manufacture of boxes for post. Instead of buying new boxes and packing materials and passing this cost onto our customers we spend considerable time sourcing used boxes and then fashioning boxes to fit each item. We do the same for bubble-wrap and foam pieces. This requires a large investment of time, energy, ingenuity, organization and storage space- it is much easier and cheaper to buy new packing materials but I can’t justify taking the easy way out when so much packing material ends up polluting our earth. Our $3.00 charge does little to pay for the time (and storage) needed do this and to pack your item (there is also the time needed to get your package to the post office). This is something we’re happy to do for our customers and the environment. We appreciate your support in this area.
We accept DIRECT BANK DEPOSIT. We send photographic ID of the store owner (Michael Grealy) to all customers at the point of sale, along with media articles about iNVISeDGE with photos of Michael Grealy in them (most of these articles are about 10 years old). Your payment will be paid into an Australian ANZ bank account under the name Michael Grealy (or iNVISeDGE). Please read our ebay feedback spanning more than 15 years for irrefutable proof of our online trading history and reputation. Ebay feedback can ONLY be left by LEGITIMATE PAYING customers! Additionally please be aware that in Australia ALL consumers are protected BY LAW if the goods or services they buy are not as described. (But this should be of no concern- in our first 15 years of trading we have over 1150 positive ebay feedback comments and ZERO negative feedback comments.) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On occasions a DIRECT BANK DEPOSIT can be made at the time of collection. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ On occasions CASH payment when you collect your item may also be available. Confirm prior to purchase if you need this. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Other payment methods are available but problematic and may incur additional fees. Tell us prior to purchase if you are unable to feel 100% confident with our trading history and payment methods so we can negotiate something else with you.
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