Glass basket attributed to Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso around the 1940s.

Superb Murano market basket attributed to Barovier & Toso from the 1940s. Thick transparent fused glass with inclusions of gold leaf and white pulegoso glass. Barovier & Toso is the oldest Murano glass manufacturer, founded in 1295. In the early 1900s, Benvenuto Barovier, Vittorio Zecchin, and Umberto Belotto designed a series of mosaic glass in the Art Nouveau style. In 1920, Ercole Barovier became the artistic director. Under his leadership, Barovier, Barovier & Toso won numerous awards for their innovations. In 1930, the award-winning "Primavera" series was presented at the Venice Biennale. Barovier continued to produce innovative designs, several of which became iconic, such as 'Lenti', 'Crepuscolo', 'Autunno Gemmato', 'Oriente', 'Rostrato', 'Tessere', and 'Barbarico'. The company became Ferro Toso Vetrerie Artistiche Riunite S.A in 1936 when Vetreria Artistica Barovier merged with Ferro Toso. In 1942, the company was renamed Barovier & Toso. The company also created works by Matteo Thun, Giusto and Renato Toso, Toni Zuccheri, and Sergio Asti. Today, Barovier primarily focuses on luxury lighting.