17 inch double sommerso vintage vaseline art glass centrepiece

This is a monster piece - 4.25kg or about 9 pounds. It has uranium oxide in the one of the layers which makes it fluoresce green under UV black light. (See the 3rd photo.)  This piece has the distinctive signs of age. Our guess is that it's from the 1960s or 70s.

So who made it? It's unsigned, as was normal for mid-century Murano.  We bought it from someone who thought it was from Murano. The green and yellow is certainly a classic Murano colour combination, and the gondola shaped centrepiece is a common Murano desigh. However, the bulbous ends and the way the thin green top layer is made are not quite like any Murano we've seen before. Often, when we find a quality piece which is unsigned and which doesn't quite seem to be Murano, we eventually find that it is Czech, which was also generally unsigned in the middle of the 20th century. The bulbous ends are similar to pieces we've seen by Jan Beranek at Skrdlovice glassworks (see Skrdlovice 1964 Jan Beranek 'Red Core' Czech vase for another example of  his designs).  Either way, it's a fantastic, vintage piece.

Length: 44.5cm (17.75 inches)
Width: 19cm
Height: 10 cm
Weight: 4.25 kg
Condition: Some shallow scratches and scuffs. A deeper scratch of about 4mm (see photo). A 2mm x 2mm chip in the inside (see photo).

Our Reference: 2780

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