This graceful angelfish and appealing seahorse are crafted out of handblown glass accented with flakes of real gold. They are in the tradition of the world renown glass artistry of Murano in Italy, for, in fact, their creators first learned the craft of glassmaking on that famed Italian island.
These delightful denizens of the deep are the creations of the Marcolin brothers during their brief collaboration with Sardinia Crystal in Italy. Josef Marcolin was born in 1933 and his brother Benito Marcolin three years later. Both studied glassmaking on Murano, moving to Sweden in the 1950s to work with various famous glassworks before starting their own company, FM Konstglas (Swedish for "art glass"). They focused on glass sculptures, combining traditional Murano glass techniques with the clean lines and minimalism associated with Scandinavian design. The factory closed in 1991, the brothers moving to Sardinia, Italy, with the intension of producing a similar lines with Sardinia Crystal. However, by the mid-1990s, Benito returned to Sweden and shortly afterwards Josef moved to Austria.
Both pieces are signed with the Marcolin name and Sardinia, was well as model numbers.
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3-6870, 3-6869
