Murano Sommerso Kidney Dish — Aubergine-Fuchsia & Cobalt Blue, Flavio Poli for Seguso-Style, 1960s

Hand-formed Murano Sommerso kidney dish from the 1960s, very close in form and color to the documented color family Ametista-Blu, which Flavio Poli developed for Seguso Vetri d'Arte during his working period 1955–1965 and which is cataloged in the Seguso company archive under number 12877. The massive glass body features a classic Sommerso layering with an aubergine-fuchsia core color that lightens from the base to the rim into a luminous rosé-violet, and is enclosed at the three upturned rim lobes by an intense cobalt-turquoise zone — the color contrast between the warm amethyst-colored core and the deep blue rim flames makes this bowl one of the most spectacular Poli color schemes of the working period. The three raised rim noses are freehand-formed and pincer-folded, with soft shell-shaped rim arches in between — the characteristic Poli/Seguso-scodella handwriting, where the initially circular bowl is rolled with pincers into a kidney-shaped freeform with three indentations.

The glass body measures 18.5 cm in length and 15 cm in width, with a height of 7.5 cm over the raised rim noses — a very pleasant centerpiece format that develops a sculptural presence on a coffee table, a side table, a console, or as a vide-poche in the anteroom, without dominating the space. The Sommerso core is massive and thick — the deep glass layering creates a different optical play of colors from every angle, with the aubergine and fuchsia tones glowing warmly during the day, and the cobalt blue rim flames shimmering almost inky in the evening artificial light. Very good original condition: no visible chips, no scratches, the glass crystal clear without clouding, the polished ground pontil mark at the base intact, the Sommerso color play fully preserved. A collectible piece of Italian post-war modernism from the workshop whose Sommerso technique received the Compasso d'Oro in 1954 and which redefined the richness of colors in Murano art glass production after World War II.