Murano glass vase, Italy 1960s

Coloured Murano glass vase produced by the Italian manufacturer Maestri Vetrai Muranesi in the 1960s. This beautiful vase in bright shades of blue, orange, and red has a triangular shape. The vase was made using the sommerso technique, developed in Italy in the 1950s and very famous today. This glass is covered with a thick layer of colourless glass or another colour. The first objects were created in the second half of the 1930s by Carlo Scarpa for the Venini & C. Factory. He used layers of colourless glass that included bubbles or gold leaf and covered them with a two-centimetre thick layer of glass. This technique has been adopted by many other manufacturers, who achieved very different results.