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$40.00Handmade pig or hog paperweight in pink cased bubbly glass.
Measures 4½” long, 3½” tall and weighs 1.4 lbs. Pink bubbly glass encased in crystal with applied black eyes. Maker and age unknown.
Date and maker unknown. Possibly Czech glass, mid to post 20th century.
She’s a chubby little hog in perfect condition. Great gift for your favorite little hog!
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$70.00Beautiful emerald green glass vase encased in quality crystal. Hand-made in Italy, circa 1970’s.
The style and form of this vase is often attributed to Seguso (Mid-20th Century Italian glass). The Seguso glass house did make a form like this, including the encased twisted colored glass in the tail. A vase exactly like this in emerald and crystal with applied fin feet is shown at Worthpoint.com as a Seguso piece.
High quality glass. The vessel was blown from on optic mold providing the vertical optic panels. The fins were crafted separately and applied. The twisted emerald glass encased in the tail is a difficult decor to achieve.
In excellent condition. Measures 8″ tall and 5½” at widest.
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$95.00Handmade vintage Murano art glass owl with green millefiori eyes.
Mid-20th century Italian made owl figurine possibly by Franco Moretti. Certainly vintage Murano glass by one of the fine glass makers of the time.
Quality multi-color glass layered by hand and encased with crystal. Inner layer of colorless glass is cased with Lattimo (milk glass) providing opacity. The Lattimo layer is cased with the colored mottled glass. The owl’s body has silver leaf in the colored glass layer and expertly controlled bubbles inside the red glass head. The green millefiori eyes and colorless beak were applied. The figurine is solid glass, not hollow.
In excellent condition. Big owl figurine stands 5″ tall, 3″ at widest and weighs 1.6 lbs.
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$145.00Antique Venetian Art Glass Hand-Blown Vanity Vase Set with Silver Aventurine
Darling antique Venetian art glass vase set made by hand in Venice, Italy. They appear to be very old, possibly late 1800’s. Both in excellent condition.
Made of quality cased crystal. Inner layer of pink and green color with sparking silver aventurine. The vases are thick-walled with drawn stems. Applied hand-tooled crystal leaf bases have been ground to sit flat. Small bits of furnace debris can be seen within the glass. Furnace debris is often found in antique glass because they used open furnaces and organic fuel. In excellent condition.
Made completely by mouth and hand. One is slightly taller than the other. Both stand straight upright, the smaller appears to slant in the images, but it doesn’t slant, it’s a side-effect of imaging. They are not perfect in shape, but this is due to very old hand-made glass methods.
Beautiful for the vanity. Tallest is 7 3/8″, smaller stand 7″ tall. Both in excellent condition.
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$110.00Hand-made Pulegoso art glass from Mid-20th Century Italy with foamy bubble decor trapped within emerald green and clear glass layers.
Back in the days of art glass studios, when beautiful objects were produced by masters of the art for everyday use, elaborate decorative bowls like this were made by famous artists and distributed throughout the world. The art glass studio era ended in the 1980’s, but was in full revival until then, making glass objects using methods gleamed from antiquity. This Italian Pulegoso art glass beauty was created sometime between 1920 and 1970.
According to the Corning Museum of Glass; Pulegoso
(Italian, from the dialect word pulega, “bubble” Glass containing numerous bubbles of all sizes, produced by adding bicarbonate of soda, gasoline, or other substances to the melt. The bubbles make the glass semi-opaque…. Pulegoso was developed by Napoleone Martinuzzi (1892-1977) on the island of Murano, Italy, in the 1920s.It’s big and very useful. It was designed to double as a catch-all, flower bowl, candle holder, snack bowl, and even as an ashtray. Measures 6″ wide, 7″ long, 3.5″ tall and weighs 2.8 lbs.
There are no chips or cracks. There is some light use marks in the center of the bowl caused by over 50 years of use. But the glass is still brilliant and whole and the use marks are hard to see. We are offering this rare item at a discounted price due to the use wear.
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$75.00SOLD
Val Saint Lambert Emerald Cut to Crystal Vase with Maker’s Label
Heavy crystal vase by Val Saint Lambert of Belgium. Made with quality colorless crystal with a layer of emerald green crystal. The decor was achieved by removing the green crystal revealing a pattern in colorless crystal.
Val St. Lambert sticker still attached. In perfect condition. Measures 7½” tall with a 3¾” wide flared bowl. Weighs 1½ lbs. Estimated circa 1970 – 1990.
Beautiful, well-made quality vase made with authentic lead crystal. Perfect gift, including flowers, for that special someone.
Val St. Lambert was founded in Belgium, in 1826.
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$225.00Highly Stylized Cased Glass Jug With Metallic Filaments Circa 1935
Made in the method of Crepuscolo glass. Quality hand blown cased art glass internally decorated with metallic strands and particles.
Crepuscolo is an Italian glass decor technique using steel or copper wool. The word ‘Crepuscolo’ means ‘dusk’ or ‘twilight’ in Italian. Crepuscolo glass technique was invented (or rediscovered) by Ercole Barovier (Murano, 1889-1974; Italian Glass Master). In the Barovier examples we’ve seen, the metallic strands are more pronounced and ‘wirey’. The same technique was used with this pitcher.
Inner layer is solid black glass, decor is greenish gold metal mesh and strands, cased in clear with applied blown handle. The combined decor techniques make this art glass pitcher appear to be highly polished black granite. We believe the metal is copper, with a greenish tint due to age of copper used, or more likely the black glass layer behind it.
Requires two hands to pour because it is heavy; one hand holding the handle, the other under the base. The handle is strong, very usable as a beverage pitcher or a vase. White spots in images are light reflections. Makes a striking floral vase too.
Big, full-sized pitcher, weighs 5 lbs. Measures 10″ tall and 9″ at widest. In excellent condition. Art Deco era styling and Crespuscolo glass decor suggest it was made in the 1930’s to 1940’s. Probably of Italian descent. Unmarked.
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$45.00Vintage art glass bowl cased in white and plum cased glass with lattice decor.
Beautiful vintage art glass bowl hand-made by Pilgrim Art Glass, USA. Circa 1960’s. In excellent condition.
The mid-century glass blower created this piece of glass art by casing dark purple glass with a layer of opaque white glass and a layer of colorless glass. It was then blown into an optic mold, cooled and hand-finished by heat polishing the rim and creating the wide V utensil rest with hand-tool. The base was polished flat leaving a remnant of the pontil mark.
Deep bowl is perfect for anything from sauces to nuts. Retro modern elegance for your table. Measures 6″ round and 4″ deep. Weighs 1.75 lbs.
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$60.00Murano Glass Clown Tomato hand-made in Italy, circa 1960’s – 1980’s.
Because of the fat, red, round belly, this vintage Murano Glass clown form is often called a ‘Tomato Clown’.
Each piece was handmade by an Italian glass artist and then applied together to form the clown. The feet and circle rim are in cobalt blue. The cobalt blue hat has applied rings of white glass. The hands, lips, nose, eyes, hair and ‘foliage’ collar are applied separately. Nice, thick, colorful vintage glass is sturdy and quality.
This Murano art glass clown measures 8″ tall, 5.75″ wide and 4″ thick. Weighs just under 2 lbs. In like-new condition. Perfect gift for your favorite clown lover.