Battuto Carved Sommerso Art Glass Tower Vase

Battuto Carved Tower Vase Sommerso Art Glass

Stunning retro orange hand-blown sommerso glass with hand-cut Battuto decor. This vase is gorgeous. Hand-blown and cold cut. Made with luminous bright carrot orange glass blown with colorless glass (sommerso). The glass is quality and heavy. The exterior was hand carved in wide horizontal cuts in the Battuto, Inciso or Martele fashion. Battuto (or Battuti) means “struck” in Italian. Martelé literally means “hammered” in French. The word in Italian is “martellato”. This may be a vintage Italian object. Italian masters like Carlo Scarpa of Venini, and pre 1960 Galliano Ferro, Carlo Moretti for Rosenthal, among others, created forms like this. Scandinavian countries, like Denmark and Sweden (Orrefors) made art glass with incised decor in the mid 20th century also. It is of exceptional quality. The bright orange color points to the 1960s – 1970s. There is one more clue on the seat of the vase. A shadow remains of the original label. It is impossible to read, but the shape of the label, and the square located inside the label, could lead to the maker’s identity.

Tapering 14″ tower of thick quality glass. It weighs 2 lbs.