Nason Moretti | Murano Crystal Tealight Holders | Luxury Italian Handcrafted Glass | Thomas Goode India
About Nason Moretti
Nason Moretti is an iconic Murano glass brand, established in 1923, on the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon — the most celebrated centre of luxury glass production in the world. The island of Murano has been the home of Venetian glassmaking since 1291, when the Republic of Venice ordered all glass furnaces to be moved from the city to Murano to reduce the risk of fire in Venice's densely built wooden buildings. Over the seven centuries since, Murano has become synonymous with handcrafted luxury glass of the highest standard: a tradition of glassblowing, colouring, and decorative technique that is recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Nason Moretti emerged from this tradition in 1923 as a studio dedicated to producing handcrafted glassware that blends traditional Venetian techniques with contemporary design. The studio's identity is built around the Murano approach to colour: vivid, saturated, and achieved through mineral compounds added to the glass melt rather than applied to the surface. The result is glassware whose colour is integral to the material, whose surface has the quality of light trapped within glass rather than painted onto it, and whose bi-colour combinations — the defining visual character of the Ophelia and Texas series — produce objects of immediate decorative presence.
The Nason Moretti collection at Thomas Goode India is the Candles & Holders range: a series of handcrafted Murano crystal tealight holders across multiple named series and colourway combinations, available at The Oberoi Hotel, New Delhi and online.
The Murano Glassmaking Tradition
Murano glass has held its status as the world's most distinguished handcrafted glass tradition for over seven centuries. The island's glassmakers developed techniques that transformed glass from a utilitarian material into a luxury art medium: vetro millefiori (thousand flowers glass, formed from canes of coloured glass bundled and fused), filigrana (glass with embedded white or coloured threads forming lace-like patterns), sommerso (cased glass with one colour submerged within another), and the bold single-colour soda glass for which Murano tableware and decorative objects are internationally recognised.
The colour tradition of Murano glass is its most immediately distinctive quality. Murano glassblowers add mineral oxide compounds — cobalt for blue, copper for green and red, manganese for purple, gold chloride for ruby, selenium and cadmium for orange and amber — to the glass melt before blowing, producing colour that permeates the full depth of the material. A cobalt blue Murano glass object is blue all the way through — the colour cannot wear, chip, or fade because it is not on the surface of the glass but within it.
Nason Moretti works within this tradition, applying the Murano colour vocabulary to a range of tealight holders and decorative glass pieces designed to bring the Venetian luxury glass aesthetic to the contemporary home and table setting.
The Nason Moretti Collection at Thomas Goode India
The Nason Moretti range at Thomas Goode India is entirely focused on tealight holders — handcrafted Murano crystal pieces designed to hold a tealight candle and transform its light through the colour and optical properties of the glass. These are objects that perform their function most fully in their interaction with light: a lit Nason Moretti tealight holder is a fundamentally different visual experience from an unlit one, because the candlelight passing through the coloured crystal produces a warm, coloured glow that the flat appearance of the unlit glass does not suggest.
Ophelia Series
The Ophelia series is the most varied and distinctive range in the Thomas Goode India Nason Moretti collection, defined by its bi-colour glass construction. Each Ophelia tealight holder combines two distinct crystal colours in a single piece, with the two colours meeting in a visible interface within the glass body. Available colourways at Thomas Goode India include Azure/Green, Amber/Black, Purple/Yellow, Green/Black, Rose/Black, and Clear/Clear.
The bi-colour technique requires particular skill at the Murano studio: the two colours must be worked together while the glass is still molten, before they set in their combined form. The meeting of two different coloured glass melts at different temperatures and viscosities creates the risk of stress fractures and colour bleeding — managing this risk while producing consistent, clean interfaces between the two colours is a craft achievement that reflects the Murano tradition's centuries of accumulated colour work expertise.
The colour combinations in the Ophelia series are not arbitrary: each pairing produces a specific optical and aesthetic character. The Azure/Green combination produces a cool, aquatic quality — two colours from the blue-green spectrum that read as variants of the same tonal world rather than contrasting opposites. The Amber/Black combination produces the most dramatic contrast available in the series: the warm luminosity of amber against the depth of black. The Purple/Yellow pairing produces a complementary-colour contrast — the two colours opposite each other on the colour wheel — whose tension catches the eye in a way that analogous colour pairings do not. Rose/Black brings a softness to the dramatic dark ground. Clear/Clear is the most restrained, using the Murano crystal's natural optical clarity without colour as the design statement.
Nevada Crystal Tealight Holder
The Nevada Crystal Tealight Holder in Clear/Black/Red is the Nason Moretti piece with the most complex colour composition in the Thomas Goode India range: three distinct colour elements — clear crystal, black, and red — in a single piece. The Nevada form is a different vessel profile from the Ophelia, and its three-colour composition reads as a more architecturally bold statement at the table or on a surface.
Texas Tealight Holders
The Texas series at Thomas Goode India is available in Clear/Rose and Clear/Black colourways. The Texas form presents the bi-colour construction in a profile distinct from the Ophelia, providing variety in silhouette across the Nason Moretti range at different scales and form characters.
Nashville, Memphis, Dakota and Phoenix Tealight Holders
The Nashville, Memphis, Dakota, and Phoenix tealight holders represent the more architecturally scaled and formally present pieces in the Nason Moretti range at Thomas Goode India. These larger-format holders suit the formal dining table centrepiece context, the reception console, and settings where the tealight holder is intended to make a visual statement as much as to hold a candle. All are handcrafted at the Nason Moretti studio in Murano, in the coloured and clear crystal combinations that define the brand's aesthetic identity.
Nason Moretti and the Table
Nason Moretti tealight holders are most naturally used in groups — the visual richness of a Murano glass object increases when multiple pieces are placed together, as the candlelight interacts between the holders and the colours combine on the table surface. A group of three Ophelia holders in different colourways — Azure/Green, Amber/Black, and Purple/Yellow — creates a table composition of controlled colour variety within the same luxury glass tradition.
The Nason Moretti tealight holders pair naturally with the broader Candles & Holders collection at Thomas Goode India, where the Halcyon Days bone china lidded candles and the William Yeoward Crystal and Reflections Copenhagen holders provide complementary formats. In the formal dining context, the Nason Moretti holders work alongside the Thomas Goode silver-plated three-light candelabra and the Christofle Dédale cutlery for a complete formally lit table.
Gifting Guide
Nason Moretti tealight holders are among the most naturally giftable luxury objects at Thomas Goode India: they are compact, visually immediate, universally applicable, and carry the weight of the Murano glass tradition in a format that requires no specific occasion or recipient context to be appreciated. A single Ophelia tealight holder in a striking colourway — Amber/Black or Purple/Yellow — is a gift that communicates material quality and Italian design identity without any explanation.
For more substantial gifting, a group of three or four Ophelia holders in a coordinated colourway selection — gifted together or assembled by the recipient over multiple occasions — creates a table candlelight composition that is uniquely personal. The Nason Moretti tealight holders pair naturally with the Halcyon Days lidded candles in a coordinating colour tone for a complete candle gifting presentation.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Nason Moretti and where is it made?
Nason Moretti is an iconic Murano glass brand, established in 1923, on the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, Italy. The island has been the home of Venetian glassmaking since 1291 and is recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage site for its glass production tradition. Nason Moretti produces handcrafted glassware that blends traditional Venetian techniques with contemporary design. At Thomas Goode India, the Nason Moretti range is a series of handcrafted crystal tealight holders across the Ophelia, Nevada, Texas, Nashville, Memphis, Dakota, and Phoenix series.
What is Murano glass and why is it considered a luxury material?
Murano glass is handcrafted glass produced on the island of Murano in the Venetian lagoon, using techniques developed by Venetian glassmakers over seven centuries. The island has been the centre of luxury glassmaking since 1291. The Murano tradition is distinguished by its colour technique — mineral oxide compounds added to the glass melt produce colour that permeates the full depth of the material rather than being applied to the surface — and by its mastery of complex decorative techniques including millefiori, filigrana, and sommerso. Murano glass production is recognised by UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage.
What is the Ophelia series and what makes it distinctive?
The Ophelia is the defining series in the Nason Moretti range at Thomas Goode India — a bi-colour tealight holder in which two distinct crystal colours are combined in a single handcrafted Murano glass piece. Available in Azure/Green, Amber/Black, Purple/Yellow, Green/Black, Rose/Black, and Clear/Clear colourways, each Ophelia requires two glass melts of different colours to be worked together while molten before setting. The bi-colour interface is a craft achievement that reflects the Murano tradition's centuries of colour work expertise.
What are the different Nason Moretti tealight holder series available at Thomas Goode India?
Thomas Goode India carries: Ophelia tealight holders in Azure/Green, Amber/Black, Purple/Yellow, Green/Black, Rose/Black, and Clear/Clear; the Nevada Crystal Tealight Holder in Clear/Black/Red; Texas tealight holders in Clear/Rose and Clear/Black; and the Nashville, Memphis, Dakota, and Phoenix tealight holders — larger-format architecturally scaled pieces suited to the formal dining table and reception settings.
How does Murano glass achieve its colour without surface application?
Murano glassblowers add mineral oxide compounds to the glass melt before blowing: cobalt for blue, copper for green and red, manganese for purple, gold chloride for ruby, and selenium and cadmium for orange and amber. The colour is present in the glass batch from the beginning of the melting process, permeating the full depth of the final piece. This integral colouring is the reason Murano glass has a depth and luminosity that surface-painted or sprayed glass cannot replicate — the colour is within the light, not on top of it.
How should Nason Moretti crystal tealight holders be used and cared for?
Place a standard tealight candle in the holder and light it — the candlelight transforms the appearance of the coloured crystal, producing a warm glow through the glass. For best effect, group multiple holders of different colourways together. Remove spent tealights when cool, and wipe the interior clean with a soft cloth if wax residue accumulates. Wash the glass exterior with warm water and mild detergent, and dry immediately with a lint-free cloth to prevent water marks. Do not put crystal tealight holders in a dishwasher.
