Topic: Help identify this piece

[Max]

Thanks for that Christine.  I've never seen one of those vases/ewers with an import label before...in fact I've never seen one with any label before!   

PS Lynne, I've got a little pottery figurine, it's a kneeling figure of a black lady...which I think is for Drioli too.

[josordoni]

Hi Max, yes, the kneeling tribal lady is definitely Drioli, the other nice set I like is of jazz musicians - including a very plump singer!

Here is an interesting site featuring the various Drioli miniatures - they reckon that the glass was made for Drioli on Murano, and I would expect that to be right, looking at the colours of the little animals.

I think I may have found your lady on the Drioli site Max - is it this one?

(http://www.drioli.com/figural/black_girl_basket_front.jpg)

[Lustrousstone]

Doh, it had never occurred to me it was a Hardy label   

[josordoni]

What fun pieces - would the Drioli bottles be cork-stoppered or left open like carafes?

Anne, most of the Driolis I have had (ceramic) had a little cork bung with either a plastic moulded top, the same as you would find in some commercial liqueur or sherry bottles, or just cork, with a paper and gilt printed seal over the top.

I tell you some of the part used ones are REALLY sticky.....!!!

[josordoni]

Anne, looking through this post, it seems to have two distinct threads - could you split out the Drioli please, so it doesn't detract from Cristalclear's vase?

[shandiane78]

Good idea to separate the topics. Do the Murano Drioli bottles sell very well? (Don't believe the OP's piece is one, btw.)

[johnphilip]

Luigi Onesto copied some Flavio Poli designs in the 1990/s some carried the Oggeti import label,could this be a possibility.