Topic: Can Anyone Help me Identify This?

[Angela B]

We are still finding out about these. They are certainly being imported into New Zealand from China and sold in very nice boxes lined with white satin.
It is possible that the paperweights are designed in NZ and made in China, but I suspect it is more likely they are designed and made in China.
It's still a nice paperweight. The quality is a lot better than the Chinese imported paperweights with bitty fish or seagulls floating in them that I saw about five years ago.

[m1asmithw8s]

It certainly has a modern Chi base and looks to be quite new.

[karelm]

"snip"It's still a nice paperweight. The quality is a lot better than the Chinese imported paperweights with bitty fish or seagulls floating in them that I saw about five years ago.

I know I'll get crucified for this but the Chinese weights are getting better and better.....a couple of years down the line they are going to be really good.  I believe that somewhere one of the chinese factories are going to start collecting the best glassworkers in one place and then we will see a much bigger shock than the one Perthshire created in the market some years ago.

[glasstrufflehunter]

It would take a lot to outdo Perthshire, but it's not impossible.

I agree that the newer Chinese weights are improving in quality. I have always liked their flowers and it's nice to see them in perfectly clear crystal now. I am picking up the some of the nicest ones here and there when the pocket book won't allow me to get a Scottish weight.

I've heard that TJ Maxx carries nice Chinese weights. They're building one near me. I'll be there looking them over when they open.

I like the way they tend to run in large sizes these days.

[karelm]

It would take a lot to outdo Perthshire, but it's not impossible."snip"

I agree 100% with that!  But it is a big ask!
I do not like the "modern swirley wirley" weights as much as I do the lampwork and cane weights.  I therefore hope that they make more of the latter and less of the former
Anycase I am starting to eventually focus my collection.  And it is around 3 things Perthshire, paperweight related items and Chinese animal lampwork weights!
Cheers

[Angela B]

I collect Perthshires (amongst a lot of other glass things) and I'm keeping a close eye on the Chinese weights. Like you, I prefer the lampwork types, not the abstracts.
What does anyone make of this? Is it Chinese? Could it be Murano?
Its not quite ugly and not quite beautiful.
http://www.glassencyclopedia.com/butterflypaperwt.html

[glasstrufflehunter]

That is an extra fine example of the new Chinese weights. It is a rather large size with nice lampwork. It would be prettier if the stem and leaf were a nicer shade of green but otherwise that is a really nice paperweight. If I saw that in a store, I would grab it in a heartbeat.

Not fond of Chinese millefiori. When they put Italian canes in their weights they usually get badly distorted and their own canes just aren't much to look at yet.

[Angela B]

Thank you for the identification.
I'm not sure I would recognise their own millefiori and the kind of murano millefiori they put in their Chinese paperweights. Do you have a couple of pictures you could share with us on this?

[m1asmithw8s]

Here's one of my Fav modern Chi weights in my collection. It's a super magnum too at 5'' diameter. I've seen other examples of this design that did not turn out nearly as well.

[glasstrufflehunter]

Angela: Alas I don't.

Mark: Now that's what I'm talking about! My one wish would be that the quality in Chi weights (nifty name!) would be more consistent and like that weight all of the time.

The problem I have in finding good ones is that there are tons on Ebay but the sellers put up a representative photo that is not the one you would get so it's a crap shoot on quality. Some of them also charge through the nose on shipping.

I did order one a couple days ago. When I get it, I will put up a picture.