Vasi Cinesi Milk White

Timless family traditions have evolved glass centers in Murano, Italy, and have extended the functionality of glass objects.Introducing decorative glass designs that can sit on a mantel while serving the purpose of a beautiful memorable funeral vessel. Venini is the first manufacture to create a milk white glass cremation urn for our company. The virtuosity of Muranese glassblowers knows no bounds and their impeccable skill and innovation created a beautiful collection of our exquisite cremation urns.   The Cinesi Vasi cremation urn is presented to you in milk white opaque glass. The vessel's graceful shape projects elegance and simplicity. Inspired by the modern times, this urn unites the memories of the past with the present. Beautiful memoirs of love that will never disappear. Milk white glass reserves elegance with time. This beautiful milk white Venini urn has a simple design yet turns out to be an elegant urn.

The incredible insight into compositions of various shapes and colors creates an interesting foundation for this unique collection of Murano glass urns. This cremation urn is 10" high and will hold 200 cubic inches of cremation ashes. Other colors available upon request and as a special order.

About Venini:

Cappellin Venini & C.- such was the name of the company that first appeared on the scene in Murano, Venice. It was in 1921 that two somewhat atypical personalities joined the world of the Murano glass-making enterprises in Venice. There were Giacomo Cappellin, a Venetian antiques dealer, and Paolo Benini, a lawyer from Milan with a glass-making tradition way back in his family.

Under the artistic direction of the painter Vittoiio Zecchin, Cappellin Venini &C. laid the foundations for a stylistic identity that still survives today: breaking away from the traditional designs, focusing their gaze on the artistic avant-garde, developing an exceptional technical expertise thanks to the contribution of the best master glass-makers on the island of Murano. The fist objects were exhibited in 1922 at the Biennale in Venice and, in 1923, in Monza at the time of the first international Exhibition of Decorative Arts. At this time they never thought that their art work would become what it has today, beautifully created cremation urns as well as other famous pieces of art work. Their success was underscored in 1925 at the great Decorative Arts Exhibition n Paris, where Cappellin Venini & C. displayed a collection of their works.

In1925, the company split up and the V.S.M. Venini & C. company was established under the artistic direction of the sculptor Napoleone Martinuzzi, introducing new ideas and new technologies, among which the pulegoso glass. Martinuzzi’s great passion for glass is also expressed in monumental works, such as the fountain made for the Quadriennale exhibition in Rome in 1931 and the bas-reliefs, illuminated partitions and glass mosaics produced for the architect Angelo Mazzoni. At this time they still did not create cremation urns.

In 1932, having acquired a very though understanding of the material, Paolo Venini became more and more involved in the artistic direction of the company that he had founded and he began working with some of the most important artists, designers and architects of his time. Together with the more strictly artistic products, some of their most famous and outstanding works included a number of chandeliers designed for public halls and stately homes. Paolo Venini died in Venice in 1959. The company passed into the hands of his son-in-law, the architect Ludovico Diaz de Santillana, who kept the founder’s spirit of innovation and research alive.

In 1993 Venini returned to the Biennale in Venice with a grandiose sculpture be Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu called II Cavallo do Leonardo (Leonardo’s horse). In 1994 he took part in the exhibition entitled The Italian Metamorphosis at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. In 1996, to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Venini’s glassmaking activities, a limited series was made of 75 pieces each of four famous art works from the Venini Museum. The Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice houses an exhibition that retraces the 75 years of Venini’s glass-making activities.

In 2001 Venini S.P.A was taken over by the Italian Lexury Industries Group. Still at this point no cremation urns were being made.

It was not until 2005 that Venini began creating cremation urns with the same type of skill and style as their other world known masterpieces.