Featured Is This Aventurine Glass?

Hi All,
would this be considered aventurine glass?
any information appreciated.
thanks for looking

 

pretty, pretty !!!!

 

I used to be a bead seller and beaded jewelry designer (and may be again!) and have had many varieties of Venetian glass beads over the years. They've been favorites of mine.

This one looks like embedded gold foil to me, called "sommerso." The foil may be pure gold, but it's hard to know for sure. Aventurine/aventurina is most often applied on the surface and is copper-based rather than gold so the coloring is warmer.

 

thank-you Pat, I would never have figured that out Using Sommerso I'm now able to find similar pieces.

 

It could be called cased glass too, but aventurine... probably not.

 

Not Sommerso.

Sommerso is a technique of layered glass (Sommerso translates to submerged)

That has gold foil inclusions, I'll see if I can locate the correct term

 

Foglia d'Oro
“Foglia d’oro” is a technique for including a thin 24 karats gold leaf inside of the glass. A small quantity of glass is molten, blown, shaped in a form of a cylinder and rolled over gold leaf laying on a plate in order for to attach.Afterwards, more glass is applied to the item and the leaf is enveloped in the glass. Once the master starts working on this mass, the thin gold leaf breaks and appears as a mix of golden straws.

 

Here is a great example of the Sommerso Technique

 

I agree, it's not sommerso. Foglia d'oro is a good term, but not widely used in glass collecting circles - it would be called aventurine, even when it's gold.

 

thanks desperate Yup, your example is what comes to mind when I think of Sommerso but from poking around on-line it seems that in the bead world my heart piece is what is known as Sommerso. Maybe a case of one person using the term and then others copy it, I don't know.

that description seems to fit, I've never heard it before, will have to look it up.

 

Okeydoke, I stand corrected. Sorry for any confusion!

I looked back at my old listings, and when I listed beads like this, I simply said embedded gold foil. I didn't know the Foglia d'oro term, so it's nice now to learn that now.

This is an example of beads I've called "sommerso," where solid color glass and aventurine are embedded within clear glass.

 

I didn't either Pat
as Owned said, 'not widely used in glass collecting'
now here is a piece of glass that uses both terms - no wonder people get confused sometimes
https://www.miliashop.com/de/vesen-co/13838-venini-sommersi-foglia-oro-vase.html

 

Well this is interesting... Google Translate says that "sommersi" is "submerged" in English. That's what I thought "sommerso" means... but Google says it means "black" in English.

 

Sommerso definitely translates to English as "submerged" I think in some contexts it could be used as obscured / blacked out - google translate can be a bit finicky at times. I'd say primarily it's "submerged" for sure.

 

Ah, thanks for that.

 

Pat, your "sommerso" beads, I'd call inclusions - as in, aventurine or foil inclusions. Sommerso, strictly, is that kind of cased effect in desperate's photo.

 

Bear, I don't have experience with art glass other than beads, and I don't doubt what you're saying at all.

In my experience with Venetian glass beads, though, the term has long been used for the kind of bead I posted. I don't know if bead manufacturers use the term or if it's just dealers and purchasers.

Perhaps the terms have been used differently by bead people in the UK and the US?

 

I think it's different sectors, if that makes sense. I collect glass, rather than beads and in that "world" the technique isn't sommerso. It may well be different here, too.

 

You learn something new everyday. In Afrikaans the words sommer so means "just like that" or "easy". Those pieces definitely don't look like they were made sommerso/"just like that"

 

Like the Dutch "zomaar zo". Hollanders can't pronounce the z, so they would say it more like in Afrikaans.
We Dutch can understand most Afrikaans, when spoken.