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Author Topic: Venetian Fishy?  (Read 1111 times)

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Offline TxSilver

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Re: Venetian Fishy?
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2010, 09:26:31 PM »
Everything looks right for it to be Salviati, IMO. The crimps and tooling of the fins, the melted color inclusions, the flow of the piece look right. I don't think wear is a good indicator on this type of piece because of the way it is built. If it has been handled carefully enough not to break the delicate applied glass, I wouldn't expect wear. My only concern is the weight of the glass. I've not handled any of these type vases, so I'm not sure what they "should" weigh.
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Re: Venetian Fishy?
« Reply #11 on: October 03, 2010, 11:55:53 PM »
Perhaps I am overly cautious, picky, negative but I do not believe 90+% of  "early" / 19th century claims in this style of Venetian glass..

I am hard put to find or think of any quality Murano where powers or frits are used to colour pieces with the exception the very fine, subtle and scarce polveri pieces, of which this does not belong. I would be happily proved wrong with some reliably attributed examples. I am not including gold, sliver, mica and adventurine inclusions which are of course quite common, nor granizioli where the frits are largely external.

Here the frits are sparse, uneven, multi coloured and not well marvered in. It looks sloppy to my eye.
It should weigh less than half that for early production.

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