Umberto Bellotto - Centrepiece - Iron

Liberty-style centerpiece from the 1920s/30s. It is made of wrought iron and red Murano glass blown inside. The design features a spiral motif with stylized leaves and grape clusters. An item attributed to the Italian glassmaker Umberto Bellotto. These pieces are often regarded as collectible items or antiques. Umberto Bellotto, Venice 1882-1940. He began working in his father's ironwork workshop, which he inherited at 19. He was the first to unite the ancient Venetian glassmaking art with wrought iron; indeed, together with the polymath artist Cesare Laurenti, in 1910 he invented and patented a technique for iron-and-glass unions. Beyond these materials that made him more widely known, Bellotto also ventured into textiles and ceramics. Bellotto died in 1940 and since then, with the dispersion of his works, has fallen into gradual obscurity, interrupted only in 1987 by Dal Canton’s essay. In the 1995 Biennale edition, the artist was given a retrospective exhibition of five works. Dimensions: height 35 cm x diameter 24 cm.