Val Saint Lambert - Sommerso Emerald green bowl - 19 cm

Created by Val Saint Lambert (Seraing, Belgium), a world-renowned crystal works founded in 1826, this high-quality crystal bowl features an emerald green hue often referred to as "Nile Green" or "Emerald Green." Its base is made of clear crystal. Its organic, fluid, and swirling form is typical of the 1950s-1960s, a period that moved away from traditional cut crystal in favor of freer shapes reminiscent of fluid motion. This bowl represents a beautiful example of the "sommerso" technique (or cased crystal), where a layer of color is trapped within clear crystal to create a unique play of depth.

The Still Emerald

Within this bowl lies a secret of glass and breath.

It was born of a marriage between fire and wind in the workshops of Val Saint Lambert. Imagine for a moment the silence before the gesture: a blowpipe, a drop of liquid light, and this green color—deep as an ancient forest—waiting for its moment.

Then, the movement.

The master glassmaker did not merely shape the material; he trapped a whirlwind. With a circular motion, he forced the clear crystal to embrace the emerald. The green stretched and coiled upon itself, searching for an exit it would never find.

Placed upon a piece of furniture, it does not simply sit there. It drinks the daylight only to transform it into an aquatic shadow. Look at its heart: it is no longer crystal; it is the eye of a calmed cyclone, a glass corolla that seems to still quiver from the heat of the furnace.

It has traveled through time, slipping through hands like solid water, carrying within it the nostalgia of an era that knew how to give a soul to sand and fire. It is a fragment of green silence, a breath suspended in the eternity of crystal.