ROMAN STYLE SCAVO PITCHER VASE BY SEGUSO

A lovely ancient Roman style pitcher vase produced by SEGUSO VETRI D'ARTE circa 1960s.  The blue-gray tinted glass is accented by a slight iridescence and a "scavo" patina.  Scavo, "excavated" in Italian, is a technique involving the application of substances to glass surfaces that when heated (to about 1470 °F, 800 °C) fuse to create an effect similar to weathering.  This piece is intended to replicate the beauty of ancient Roman glass exhumed after centuries underground. SEGUSO VETRI D'ARTE was established in 1933 by members of one of Murano's oldest glass-making dynasties and has numbered among the island's most technically innovative and artistically creative furnaces ever since.  The SEGUSO VETRI D'ARTE brand was sold by the family in 1974, but reacquired by the current Seguso CEO, Gianluca Seguso, in 2007—along with a rich trove of archives.  To celebrate the recovery, a new collection christened "Angelo" in homage to Gianluca's great uncle Angelo Seguso was released under the h