Murano Attributed Valter Rossi Mid-Century Metallic Green-Gold Scalloped Glass Trinket Dish, 1960’s

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This striking and luminous vintage art glass hails from the world-renowned high quality glass hub of the world: Murano, Italy!

… Read more This striking and luminous vintage art glass hails from the world-renowned high quality glass hub of the world: Murano, Italy!

This piece of Venetian glass was designed and handmade in the 1960’s after being created by one of the most well known and most highly regarded designers of Murano glass at that time, Valter Rossi. Commonly used as either a candy dish or an ashtray, Rossi incorporated flecks of semi-precious metals into the pieces made at this time. One feature of a lot of authentic Murano art glass is the use of semiprecious metals being incorporated into the coloring and interior of the glass. Rossi chose to pair the gold toned metals with a richly beautiful green hued coloring, letting the two meld together. While many of the ashtrays and trinket dishes from this time period were abstract in shape, this dish, and others with similar coloring, is more rounded and scalloped.

The rolled edges of the glass are really the defining characteristic of this design, which allowed it to have more than one potential function, in addition to making it an attention grabbing piece. See less