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Flavio Poli Blue Sommerso Bowl for Seguso Vetri d'Arte...
Ivo:
I have a huge Cenedese vase which is blue cased in Neodymium - you'd think that is sommerso. But technically speaking it is not. I noticed on the Artofvenice site that they have the definition right - but still will describe some pieces as Sommerso even if it only single cased. Maybe if they see this they will be so kind as to clear up the issue. It may well be a case of stretched definitions - and I'm not sure local glassmakers always follow the correct definition either.
TxSilver:
Heiremans lumps sommerso and cased glass, as well as glass with inclusions, into a single chapter "Sommerso" in his book Murano Glass, Themes and Variations. He defines sommerso as glass made that has two or more layers made by dipping an object into glass (paraphrased). Thinking of the thinly cased vessels made by Martinuzzi, I have difficult stretching my definition of sommerso to include them. They don't look submerged to me. In fact, they barely look cased. Perhaps Heiremans included cased vessels in this chapter because it is a manner of the degree in thickness of the layers. He did not write of why he had lumped these vessels together.
Pinkspoons:
On the sommerso issue - even the knowlegable sources seem to conflict. Marino Barovier states that it is several layers, but Venini says 'one or more'.
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Another two vases to add to the pile:
kane_u_pain:
Nice pinkspoons...i should add my other colour combos of this shape by Poli to the mix to get the colours added. Beautiful pieces.
johnphilip:
All these Italian glass terminologys get confusing , i think it rests upon whose book you read and when it was written . :-\ :-\
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