Fantastic Murano Black Gold Avventurina Blown Glass Vase w/ Lattimo Lining

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Fantastic Murano Black Gold Avventurina Blown Glass Vase w/ Lattimo Lining:
$90.00

Fantastic Murano Black GoldAvventurina Blown Glass Vase with Lattimo Lining
This Gorgeous Bulbous Vase makes a wonderful addition to any decor! It truly is a WOW piece.

Hand blown glass vase, the work of a true glass artist, created in avventurina(see definition below) art glass, a black with gold colored copper inclusions swirled from the bottom, around the girth, and up into the neck, and lined with lattimo, an opaque white glass. I believe it is from 1950/50\'s, genuine \"Vetro Artistico Veneziano\"piece.

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Measures Approx. 4\" in diameter and 5\" high.

There areno \"flea bites\", no minuscule nicks,no chips, nocracks, no flaws other than the desired differences of hand blown glass artistryand a pontil scar on the bottom.

AVVENTURINA

Glass of a yellow - brownish colour, translucent, in which copper metal microcrystal are dispersed to reflect a gold colour, formed by deglassification (separation from the molten mass during the cooling step). It is prepared by melting the mixture of transparent colourless glass with the addition of cuprous oxide and iron and lead oxides. Melting takes place in a reducing chamber and the molten mass should be cooled very very slowly. Traditionally, to obtain the best quality, once the mass is molten, the oven is switched off and left to cool on its own for several days. Once room temperature is reached, the crucible is smashed and the avventurina is found under a layer of coloured oxidized glass. This glass found its highest application in Murano in the mid-nineteenth century, first at the furnaces of Pietro Bigaglia and then at Salviati & Co., where it was melted once again and blown to obtain extremely rich and elegant items, often made for the royal families of the day. In the twentieth century avventurina was used by only a small number of glass - works as it was very difficult to obtain.