Zecchin, the son of a Murano glassmaker, attended the Academy in Venice and later devoted himself, in addition to painting, to applied arts: glass, mosaics, embroidery, tapestries, furniture and ceramics. In 1912 he began his collaboration with Teodoro Wolf Ferrari, an artist trained in the Munich Secession, with whom he exhibited in Munich in 1913 and at the Venice Biennale in 1914 a series of small slabs and murrini vases made by the Barovier Artists (family business of Murano glass masters born in the mid-13th century with the name of Barovier & Toso). This vase can be dated to the same period, decorated with murrine, a technique dating back to Roman times, which involves the preliminary preparation of a glass barrel, composed of concentric layers of various colors, subsequently cut into small segments.