Topic: Pink mottled opalescent goose

[chopin-liszt]

It's a really good thing for a glass sculpture and a very attractive piece.

But for a goose... its wings would never get it off the ground, they're too short, quite apart from the fact that it's more than a bit overweight.
A goose for foie gras?

[rocco]

Thanks Anita, Sue!
Fratelli Toso and AVeM were my top candidates after I had browsed through the Zoo...

@Sue: yes, a bit clumsy, but still quite a bit more wings than most other Murano glass geese and ducks
BTW, did you see that one wing has 6 "fingers", while the other one has 7?

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

I didn't notice that, no.
I'm absolutely fascinated by it. I think it's as much the dichotomy of it being such a beautiful thing which makes it look right, while still being somehow completely wrong that is attracting me.
I like dichotomies. 

[TxSilver]

The more I hear, the more I think Fratelli Toso. The workmanship reminds me of this dove that has a Toso label. It had feathers a bit out of balance, some little, some big. I think there were 6 on one wing and 7 on the other. It's gone now, so I can only count in the pictures. (Wish we could find a goose or duck like yours with a label.)

[ottogrunf]

if you can help this is definitely Seguso

[rocco]

@Sue: somehow the proportions are really lovely in my little goose, cannot explain why either (it is quite clumsy )
@Anita: thanks, I think that was one of the birds in your zoo which reminded me of my piece.
@Otto: Anita's bird seems a better match (no opalescence or mottling in your Seguso bird, different wings). Lovely bird, though

Michael

[johnphilip]

Many domestic Geese don't fly . mine never did . other than about twenty inches off the ground .

[rocco]

So definately a domestic and not a wild goose

Michael

[johnphilip]

If you poke him he may be wild .