The Creation of Murano Glass Goblets Explained in 8 Steps Aesthetic and functionality combined in one product, Murano glass goblets are rigorously handmade by the glass masters in the prestigious island’s furnaces. This vitreous matter has slowly transformed into one of the most renowned artworks of the lagoon tradition. The Venetian goblet/tipetto is, actually something more than a simple chalice. With good fortune throughout the centuries, its productive process has kept its phases unchanged, despite the improvement given by the modern technologies. It is a fragment of history that can confer to a laid table such added value that only art is able to enhance.
But how is the Murano glass goblet or tipetto realized? 1. Generally, all begins with a sketch – a fascinating projection of the Master’s inspiration which from the creative tops of his head flows in a drawing shape on a paper through a pencil, or rather more suggestively through chalk on a stool or metal table. 2. The Master put the proper quantity of melted glass, gathering it around the extremity of a hollow metal rod (process similar to the one of stick and cotton candy) and blowing into the opposite extremity in order to obtain a little malleable sphere. 3. With quick touches of a nipper, the Master expertly shapes this first vitreous agglomerate and through the help of a colleague – in dialect called servente or serventin – who gets to the master little quantities of melted glass with another rod, he creates some decoration in elevation around the incandescent sphere. 4. The servente gets closed to the Master keeping in front of himself his metal rod with melted glass in the extremity and the Master – using a nipper for looking better after the assistant links the matter offered by the sphere, properly heated for being accommodating. Here, for a few moments the processing sphere is linked to two metal rods at the same time.