Samarcanda vase tall
Samarcanda vase tall
NasonMoretti
Samarcanda takes its name from the ancient city on the Silk Road, where Persia, China, and the Mediterranean once met. The form has been chosen to match: a generous, soft-shouldered body that tapers to a slender neck - the proportions of a vase made to hold something brought back from a journey.
The surface is worked in balloton, the small-diamond optical pattern that Murano furnaces have used for centuries. Each indentation traps the light differently, and the colour pools at the base of every cell. The pattern is not decoration laid over the glass. It is the glass.
Three colourways: Avio blue, Amber, Violet.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product Information
h. 23 cm/ ø 14 cm
100% blown glass
Made in Italy
About NasonMoretti
NasonMoretti has been blowing glass on Murano since 1923. While the great furnaces of the island made their names with chandeliers, NasonMoretti chose the table - the wine glass, the water tumbler, the dessert bowl, made for daily use rather than display. Each piece is hand-blown from molten cristallo at the end of an iron pipe, shaped by breath and eye, then coloured with mineral oxides folded into the glass at the moment it can take them. The deep blue, the ruby, the sea-green: each batch arrives a little differently. No two glasses are alike, and the small irregularities are part of the evidence.
Our NasonMoretti pieces are exclusive to Australia.
