Museum Collection

This collectible glass "Starry Night" ornament makes a beautiful addition to anyone's collection. Each ornament is faithfully reproduced from Van Gogh's 1889 original.

Each glass ornament takes up to 6 hours to hand blow, silver, paint and glitter in Eastern Europe--making each ornament a unique art piece.

MIA's glass Christmas ornaments are mouth blown, silvered, hand painted and glittered. All designs are exclusive limited edition of 1500 pieces or less. Mia designs her ornaments in her Polish studio nestled in the Tatra mountains. Mia's designs draw on Poland's folk tradition of making glass ornaments, her love of the arts and the world around us. Enjoy!

History of the Van Gogh's Oil Painting “Starry Night” 1889: When Vincent van Gogh was a patient in an asylum at Saint-Rémy in the south of France, he wrote to his brother Theo: "This morning I saw the country from my window a long time before sunrise, with nothing but the morning star, which looked very big." The morning star is another name for Venus, and it may be the large white pulsating form, just to the left of center in this painting. Van Gogh stayed up three nights in a row to paint the view from his window in the asylum, because, as he said, "the Starry Night is more alive and more richly colored than the day."
But Van Gogh was not just painting an Starry Night as an image of what he saw. In fact, the church spire here is typical of Holland, the artist's native country. So this is a picture rooted in his imagination and memory as well--a fantastic, apocalyptic vision of the night sky. What others might have viewed as a placid scene, Van Gogh has rendered in heaving and churning waves. Each stroke of paint is more than a dab of color--it's a field of energy, as well.
The contrast between the chaos of the heavens and the quiet order of the village below this Starry Night is remarkable. The cyprus tree--known as the tree of death for its traditional associations with graveyards and mourning--creates a flamelike connection between the earth and sky. But for Van Gogh, a man of strong Christian faith, death was not ominous; it was the path to heaven.

Measures 5" in Diameter