Topic: 19th century Venetian!!

[alpha]

And yet another more expensive type coming up for auciton at Bonhams:

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=4508247&iSaleNo=18358&iSaleSectionNo=1

[TxSilver]

alpha, what a wonderful weight! I like yours better than the Bonham pw.

KevH, thanks for the links. I had seen many of the scent bottles, but not the pws.  The Worthpoint pw definitely looks Chinese to me. I am glad that you followed up by saying it was. These colors would have been unusual for Muranese glassmakers.

My thoughts are that the footed pws (mine and Christie's) are 1960s. Fratelli Toso did some of their nicer footed pws during this decade. The clarity of the glass is what I would expect for 1960s and later. It looks too perfect to be an earlier Murano weight.

[Bernard C]

Note the similarity of the aventurine in the Bonham's PW to that in my Walsh trumpet vase.   Is there any significance in this?

Bernard C. 

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And here's one of the more common ones currently running on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Uncommon-Antique-Art-Glass-Paper-Weight-Very-Nice_W0QQitemZ350291173884QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518efb21fc

[tropdevin]

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And here is another old one (click on image for larger version):




Alan