Flowers: spare parts for Murano chandeliers

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The Murano glassmakers soon had a prominent and respectable image within society with the conferral and authorisation to carry swords, to enjoy immunity from legal proceedings by the Venetian State and their daughters were allowed to marry the heirs of the wealthiest families in Venice.

However, the glassmakers could not leave the Venetian Republic, and for several centuries, they maintained a monopoly on the quality of Murano glass, on the development and improvement of manual techniques and on secrets such as crystalline glass, enamelled glass, glass with gold leaf, but above all how to obtain brilliant and unique multicoloured Murano glass.

Even today Murano craftsmen still preserve and use these centuries-old techniques with mastery and without equal.