Topic: Can anyone help me with this, please ?

[Ellen]

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This small pitcher ? has been sitting in my cabinet for so long now that I don't remember what is was sold to me as.  Any thoughts all of you out there might have would be appreciated.

Thank you.

Ellen

 

[Frank]

Hi Ellen

This does appear to be close to Ysart glass possibly Strathearn yet I suspect it is not.

I am going to move this to the Glass forum for alternative suggestions.

[Max]

It looks like Murano, V Nason to me.   :?

[Della]

It looks like Murano, V Nason to me.

Exactly what I thought too Max, until I saw the match striker that Frank has posted, in a poll, on the Ysart forum.   :?  :? Now I am just pure confused.

[Max]

Only my humble opinion, but it doesn't feel like matchstriker Frank posted on Ysart.  Something about the almost Hammerite-d aventurine and the flow up the body, not to mention the Italianesque scrolled arms all say Italian to me.

Only an opinion though!  

[Ivo]

I side with Max (nudge nudge)

[Ellen]

for the input

Ellen  

[David555]

This looks like avventurina decoration on a Murano vase.

This glass found its biggest application in Murano in the mid-nineteenth century, first at the furnaces of Pietro Bigaglia and then at Salviati & C., where it was melted once again and blown to obtain extremely rich items, often made for the royal family. In the twentieth century avventurina was used by only a small number of glass-works as it was very difficult to obtain. Special mention should be made here of Barovier & Toso and Aureliano Toso who, on the designs of the painter Dino Martins executed a series of vases with this material

(Franco Deboni - Murano 900 pp339)

Avventurina is the given name for a form of decoration, Nason used the name for their wares but it was also used by other factories. This could be a small piece by Martins – not ‘Oriente’, ‘Eldorado’ or ‘Zanfirici’ but a small one off piece, the highly coloured red and green with the avventurina look like some smaller bits he did – see Murano 900, or Dino Martins book.

Just a suggestion

Thanks


Adam P

[Ellen]

Hi Adam,

Thank you for the time and trouble taken to reply to my inquiry about the little jug/pitcher/whatever.  You've given me some interesting clues and leads and I shall follow up on them.  The bottom line is that I really like it and that's what really counts !

Kind regards,
Ellen