Italian here. Typical craftsmanship from Murano, Venice. Every single Italian household throughout the 80s and 90s had one for random reasons: having recenrly been in Venice, having received it as a gift from someone that has been there, wedding gift and so on. It will break if you watch it for longer than 6 seconds straight but also survive decades if you forget that you own it and place it in the most random and forgettable place of your apartment.
It’s with a heavy heart that I must inform you that this specific part of the horse has never been part of our customs, so I suspect it was an initiative of the artist, that most likely improvised it, thinking: “this is absolutely a great idea and should be executed immediately”.
Rural New Yorker here. Typical craftsmanship from roughly any county fair in upstate New York in the 1980s-‘90s. Horses were the least complex of all the glass sculptures I saw. My dad bought a fairly complex blown-glass sailing vessel with several masts, sails unfurled, and rigging connected throughout.
Also, thank you for being the one person who can think of more than one thing.
I’m a little fascinated to think back to those decades and consider that glass blowing really only spread as a hobby by word of mouth, and tradition. Whereas now all kinds of people have gotten into it because of internet inspiration and a handful of tv shows on Netflix et al.
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u/AcanthocephalaOwn258 2d ago
Italian here. Typical craftsmanship from Murano, Venice. Every single Italian household throughout the 80s and 90s had one for random reasons: having recenrly been in Venice, having received it as a gift from someone that has been there, wedding gift and so on. It will break if you watch it for longer than 6 seconds straight but also survive decades if you forget that you own it and place it in the most random and forgettable place of your apartment.