Description
Mid-century modern Italian Murano art glass ash bowl with concentric bubble and sommerso decor.
Beautiful mid-size ashtray from 1950s Italy. The Italians used manganese in the colorless glass recipes until the 1960s. The mineral causes the colorless glass to glow a light greenish yellow under blacklight. The colorless glass on this ashtray does glow, so we can date it to 1950 – 1960.
The colorless glass was blown together with the emerald green glass (sommerso). The tiny bubbles are perfect, a mark of a good artist. The bubbles start small near the base and get slightly larger and they spiral upward. Unsigned. Measures 5″ long on 3 sides and 2″ tall. Nice deep bowl. Weighs 1½ lbs.
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