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.

Gain insight into the auction performance of Murano . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork medium.

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.

A woman who bought a vase for $3.99 at a Virginia thrift store recently sold it for $107,000.

At The Great Eastern Home, you can find a stunning selection of Murano Glass vases, bowls, and figurines that will add elegance and colour to any space. Each piece is individually hand-blown ...

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.

After stumbling upon a rare glass vase at Goodwill for $3.99 that she then sold for $85,000 at an auction, Virginia horse trainer Jessica Vincent exclusively tells PEOPLE that the funds will be ...