Topic: Murano Aquarium signed by??? id: Sandro Frattin

[m85]

Hi,

Does someone recognize this signature?

Gr,

Marcel

[TxSilver]

It is Sandro Frattin.

[soledivo]

Is this a modern piece Anita ?
 there are so many Chinese ones around its nice to see a signature.

 then again just look at this one and the quality shows, thanks for posting it   :chky:

[TxSilver]

I don't know much about Sandro Frattin except what I have been able to gather online. He opened a glass company, TFZ, in 1980. He does many sculptures and vases with applied glass. He is quite talented in making eye-appealing glass.

[Artofvenice]

Hi,
TFZ produces nice, but pretty "commercial" glassworks.
As often in Murano there are a pretty good technical skills, but a poor talent to create new items and styles (exactely the opposite of what is happening in USA).
So the TFZ glassworks are the usual Murano items: acquariums, heavy glass fish and animals and "picasso spirit" sculptures. They have a wide distribution in the Venetian shops and in the Murano "trap" factories/showrooms.
Up to a pairs of years agoo there where located close the "iron bridge".

Sincerely

Alex
www.artofvenice.com

[TxSilver]

Thanks for adding this, Alex. Your thoughts are the same as mine, but I did not know enough about TFZ to critique them well. I do like their vases. I noticed a couple are like decorated Moretti designs.