Description
Mid-century modern Italian Murano art glass ash bowl with concentric trapped bubble and sommerso decor.
Beautiful mid-size ashtray from 1950’s Italy. The Italians used manganese in the colorless glass recipes until the 1960’s. The mineral causes the colorless glass to glow a light greenish yellow under black-light. 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.
Offers three hand-formed deep cradle rests for cigars and smaller smokes, and slanted side lobes for pipe resting.
Measures 5½” long on 3 sides and 2½” tall. Nice deep bowl. Polished flat base. Weighs 1½ lbs.
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