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Retro Art Glass: Martele Battuto e Velato tower vase : home decor battuto velato vase home home accents

Retro Art Glass: Martele Battuto e Velato tower vase

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Stunning retro orange hand-blown velato sommerso glass with incised decor.This vase is gorgeous. Tapering 14' tower of thick quality glass. Weighs 2 lbs.  Hand-blown and cold cut. Made with luminous bright orange glass blown with colorless glass (sommerso).  The glass is quality and heavy.  The exterior was hand carved in wide horizontal cuts in the Battuto  or Martele fashion.  Battuto (or Battuti) means 'struck' in Italian. Martelé literally  means 'hammered' in French. The word in Italian is 'martellato'.The soft satin finish (Velato) was accomplished with repeated micro line incisions encircling the object give the surface a satin-finished appearance.This may be a vintage Italian object.  Italian masters like Tobia and Carlo Scarpa of Venini, among others, created forms in Battuto. Scandinavian countries, like Denmark and Sweden (Orrefors) made art glass with Battuto decor in the mid 20th century also.  Incised glass in the Battuto fashion is being made again today in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A. by new era studio glass artists who study under great masters like Lino Tagliapietra and Fritz Dreisbach.    It is hard to say when, where and who made this vase. It is of exceptional quality. The bright orange color points to the 1960s - 1970s.There is one more clue on the seat of the vase.  A shadow remains of the original label.  It is impossible to read, but the shape of the label, and the square located inside the label, could lead to the maker's identity. retroartglass . com  

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