
We’ve all seen an episode of Antiques Roadshow in which someone’s dusty attic find is appraised for much higher than first expected. But we never imagine it happening to us. When Virginia-based vintage object aficionado Jessica Vincent pulled down a coloured glass vase she spotted on the shelf at her local Goodwill thrift store, she had no idea that she was uncovering one of the rarest examples of famed 20th-century designer Carlo Scarpa’s limited-run ‘Pennellate’ series.