Patterns (and prices) are the best indicators of age. Collectors may be interested only in pre-war Italian handkerchief vases or may collect only post-war Chance, often of a particular pattern.

By the mid-1960s, handkerchief vases were so popular they were being copied by glass factories around the world. As sizes and shapes became standardized in modern factories, two vases in the same ...

Appraisal: Cantagalli Italian Istoriato Majolica Vase, ca. 1880, from Cleveland Hr 2. Watch Nicholas M. Dawes's appraisal of a Cantagalli Italian Istoriato Majolica Vase, ca. 1880, in Cleveland Hr ...

CHICAGO — A Chicago auction house just sold a rare piece of art for over $100,000 after a woman bought it at a thrift store in Virginia. “A solid piece of glass, that I could tell,” sai… ...

Wright said Italian glass from mid-century was the best glass that was made in the world, and it turns out the vase was made by world renowned glass blower Carlo Scarpa sometime around 1947.

An Etruscan piece of pottery from the year 500 B.C., was found at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, while a priceless vase from the same era was purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in 1983.

A glass vase designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa was sold at a Virginia thrift store for $3.99 and auctioned for $107,000.

Ancient Roman bust bought at Goodwill for $34.99 A rare vase by an Italian architect recently sold at auction for $107,100 — even though at its previous sale, it went for just $3.99.

An Italian glass vase, purchased for $4 at a thrift store in Richmond, Virginia, fetched $107,100 (including buyer’s fee) on 13 December at Wright Auction House.