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"Murrini Legacy" Size: 2.62" Price: SOLD


This is Ro's most famous marble, if we can call this astounding work of glass art a mere 'marble', ha. Yeah, sphere is probably a better term. The value of these spheres keeps increasing steadily over time, and this marble movement is still young in the grand scheme of things, so this is a great investment opportunity, beyond the shear beauty of this orb and the astounding amount of time it took Ro to create a sphere like this. Ro is also at the very end of his career now, so there won't be many more of these coming. With all of the murrini included here, you are looking at literally months of work to arrive at this finished product. Then there's the question of how Ro even managed to construct a marble like this - you look at it and your mind says HUH??? Truly amazing.

This is an early example of Ro's murrini spheres, making it more valuable. It is signed with Ro's sig chip - 'Ro' - but since it only has the Ro and no year attached to it, we know it is pre-2000, and probably from the mid 90's. You can see the sig chip near the top left of the second pic, since I managed to cover it up with a hot spot in the first pic, doh. An added bonus is the kaleidoscopic effect you get when you look inside the sphere while it is backlit and see all the wonderful colors on the inside. So, sooo cool, as seen in the last pic! A truly astounding work of art!!

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