Smoky Amethyst Sommerso Murano Glass Sculpture with White Ribbon, Italy, 1970s

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A Murano sommerso sculpture, Italy, 1970s.

A ribbon of glass rises and folds back on itself from a solid clear … Read more A Murano sommerso sculpture, Italy, 1970s.

A ribbon of glass rises and folds back on itself from a solid clear base. A milky white core is cased in smoky amethyst and then in a thick clear layer — sommerso, one colour gathered over another, so the colour reads as depth rather than as surface and shifts with the angle you look from.

Unsigned, as most Venetian export glass of the period was. Sold as Murano glass without attribution to a specific furnace.

28 cm tall, with the weight carried in the base — it holds a console or a shelf on its own. See less