Flash forward a couple months and the vase has now sold for over $107,000. The bottle-shaped design features a swirling pattern that's blown with translucent red and opaque seafoam green glass.

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The collection was called Pennellate, which means brushstroke, and was made by adding colored opaque glass to the vase as it was blown.

Shoppers struck luck at a Virginia thrift shop after a vase bought at $3.99 was sold into the art world for more than $100,000.

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But there was another marking on the vase that she couldn't quite make out. Out of curiosity, she posted a picture on a glass identification Facebook group, and then a Murano appreciation group.

Jessica Vincent found this rare Murano glass vase in an op shop in Virginia. It sold at auction for $171,000. Photo / AP Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of a Virginia thrift ...

Glass has been made in Venice for more than a thousand years, and on Murano since 1291, the year the Doge – head of state of the Serene Republic – decreed that glassmakers must move there.

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Created in the 1940s, the vase was part of the “Pennellate” series he designed for Venini, a glass workshop that produced Murano glass.