Lot #4: Extremely RARE Blue Chalet Gondola Bowl

Extremely RARE SIGNED Blue Chalet Tornado vase style Gondola Bowl Centerpiece. Extra Large 27.5 long. 9 1/2 " tall. Base is 4" across. Murano Art. Vintage from the 1960s. Absolutely stunning mint condition hand blown art glass centerpiece bowl. This is a VERY rare piece and highly sought after. The blue swirls look like a water funnel or tornado, which is why it is part of the holy grail collection of tornado vase Chalet art. This piece also has uranium in it. Will shine a faint green under black light.Measurements:27.5'' across. It is EXTRA LARGE and HEAVYCreated by Murano artists that moved to Canada. Every collector of these pieces would need to add this to their collection.One of the most vibrantly colored pieces. While this one IS marked Chalet on the bottom, many of these pieces only had stickers that rarely survived to today.All the colors remain crisp and bright for a piece of 60 years. This is in EXCELLENT vintage condition.About Chalet Glass:Angelo Tedesco (a former Venetian glass blower, master glass cutter and engraver) following many of his countrymen from Murano, Italy settled in Montreal in 1952. He then sponsored his brother, Luigi Tedesco, and his brother-in-law, Sergio Pagnin, and their families to Canada. In 1958, they, and a French-Canadian partner, established a small glassmaking factory Les Industries de Verre et Miroirs in Montreal. In 1960, the name was changed to Murano Glass.In 1960, Cornwall, Ontario faced an oncoming recession. To attract new industry, the Cornwall Industrial Development Limited (CIDL) was created and the Canadian government designated Cornwall depressed and thereby eligible for federal tax incentives. Murano Glass was one of the 18 businesses that relocated to Cornwall and production began in May, 1961. In 1962, to convey a clear statement that this was a Canadian company producing handmade Canadian designs for Canadian tastes by skilled artisans, the company changed its name to Chalet Artistic Glass.After Chalets closure in 1975, Angelo remained in Cornwall and returned to glass cutting and engraving. Five years later, he and a partner, Jean Denis Legault, opened a very small glass house in Saint Zotique, Quebec. Christallerie Chalet Vie et Art which operated from 1979-1981. When this glass house closed, Angelo returned to Italy, where he died very shortly afterward. Bring packing material.