Hand Blown Victorian Art Glass Chalcedony Vase

Victorian Art Glass Vase Designed to Simulate Striated Quartz

Victorian art glass vase with Chalcedony decor, also called ‘calcedonio’ or ‘stone glass’. This style of glass decor came from the ancient glass secrets re-discovered by Italian glass makers in the Middle Ages. This stunning Victorian art glass vase has an inner layer of opaque white, a center layer of swirled murrine and metals with an outer layer of colorless glass.  The decor method results in glass that looks like marble.

Examples of glass like this can be seen in reference book Venetian Glass – Confections in Glass 1855 -1914. Examples shown were by Salviati in 1868, purchased by the Victoria Albert museum in London

Hand-blown glass with a smooth, flattened base. The glass was cut flat and polished at the vase opening.  The glass maker’s punty rod held the glass at the neck.  When the neck was shaved, the pontil mark was removed. Numerous tiny bubbles and dark (furnace ash) inclusions. The inclusions are indicative of old hand blown glass from old batch recipes and old furnaces.

The Chalcedony Victorian art glass vase stands 10″ tall and 5″ at widest. Vase opening is 1.5″ wide. Weighs 1.5 lbs. Unmarked. Attributed to Salviati, late 1800s. Other glass artists from the 19th century could have made this vase.

Italian Glass – Venetian – Murano