Murano Sommerso Vase, Yellow-Cobalt with applied glass ribs, 1960s

A vase like a miniature theater: from a compact dark amber base, the glass body rises upwards in a chalice shape, amber-yellow, clear as captured summer afternoon sun — and cobalt blue glass ribs, applied like water droplets frozen in the act of falling, run down the outer wall. The upper lip is not drawn round, but freely and saddle-like curved, with the cobalt as a dark hem tracing the shape. A genuine Murano workshop piece from the 1960s: cast, free-blown and shaped with tweezers at that very moment of glowing heat.

At 21.5 cm high, 14 cm wide and 18 cm deep, the vase is an expressive solitaire — on a sideboard, a console or a bookshelf, as a sculptural statement piece that unfolds its full effect even without flowers. A remnant fragment of the original workshop label is preserved on the yellow lip, unfortunately too rubbed for a clear reading — the character of the label (rectangular, gold-colored) is typical for several Murano workshops of the 1960s and 70s, including Cenedese, AVEM and Salviati. The stylistic signature clearly points to the circle of Flavio Poli's and Antonio da Ros's Sommerso design language.