Murano - Vase - Murano glass - dig

This is a classic Italian Murano scavo-footed vase, probably from the 1970s-1990s. The tall stem with the cobalt blue foot and rim, and that matte, chalky white body, is textbook vetro scavo (literally "excavated glass").

Why it looks the way it does • Technique: Scavo / corroso was developed on Murano in the 1950s-60s to imitate ancient Roman glass unearthed from the ground. Crafting methods scroll hot glass into mineral powders and acids, creating that rough, matte, archaeological skin while the inside remains smooth. It was popularized by houses like Seguso Vetri d'Arte, Cenedese and Alfredo Barbini. • Form: Yours is the "coppa" or pedestal-trumpet - very common for export in the 1980s. 1stDibs describes identical pieces as "the Italian Murano Scavo glass pedestal trumpet from the 1980s... with a matte, excavated texture". Color: The fading from white to cobalt is a standard Murano palette. A very close reference is listed as a "circa 1980s Vecchia blue scavo-style Murano glass vase with a flaring lip". _ The mark on the bottom
That triangular pontillitteken with the sticky residue is exactly what you would expect from hand-blown Murano. Murano pieces "contain a pontil mark, a signature made by artisans who use a rod during shaping". _

The shape of the residue matches the old Vetro Artistico Murano consortium sticker (a triangle) and many workshops from the tourist era such as Vecchia Murano (VM srl) used a small triangular paper label in that spot. It is not a signature, so we cannot attribute it to a single master - most of these were workshop pieces, not artist-signed Cenedese or Seguso.