Nigel Havers presides as five sellers aim for the best price for their items, including wind-up toys, a Murano glass vase, a gentleman’s companion, industrial lamps and a filing cabinet.

Glass has been made in Venice for more than a thousand years, and on Murano since 1291, the year the Doge – head of state of the Serene Republic – decreed that glassmakers must move there.

On Wednesday, the vase was auctioned for $107,100 to an unidentified private art collector in Europe. About $83,500 went to Vincent, and about $23,600 went to Wright Auction House.

At the third edition of the Venice Glass Week, which opened this weekend, more than 180 initiatives were planned to celebrate Venice’s most famous craft, which was first conceived in the ...

While Murano glass may have been made anytime between 1940 and today, handkerchief glass from the 1950s and 1960s is the most valued. Patterns (and prices) are the best indicators of age.

Luca Nichetto fills room with totem-like glass lamps for Decode/Recode exhibition. ... Some sit on vase-shaped bases, ... which has been working with traditional Murano glass for over 150 years, ...

India Whalley’s The Edition 94 boasts a cult following thanks to her edit of interiors gems, from ceramic shell lamps to Murano glass tumblers. Whalley, who is also the founder of The Dot Project, ...