Topic: AVeM amber swirl vase with applied leaves and flowers. Blue & Silver Label

[Kerrie789]

I wanted to share my first piece of AVeM glass. I'm excited to have found it! It is an amber swirl vase with applied leaves and flowers on two sides. There is a blue and silver label that I didn't find in labels section here. Feel free to use my picture if you'd like to put it in your files. I'm not finding anything like this by AVeM in my searches. Is there any way to determine age and/or designer? Thanks!

[glassobsessed]

Anita has an example in red at her Murano zoo and writes "Label came in red, blue, or green. Used from late 1940-60s."

Scroll down a little, left hand side: https://sites.google.com/site/muranozoo/useful-links-books/murano-labels#

I would not have guessed at Avem, having seen similar flowers to yours before a couple of times, first on this comport:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,51683.0.html

Then on this lovely bird, I had assumed Salviati too but now...?

John

 

[Kerrie789]

I see the label, thank you very much! The other glass is beautiful, and the flowers look the same as my vase. Fascinating! I wonder if they are all AVeM. It is very fortunate that this vase still had the label.

[glassobsessed]

Could be but it is risky making attributions based on a single characteristic like that.

[Pinkspoons]

The label looks very much like it's been removed at some point in the past - whether just to place it somewhere less conspicuous on the original piece or to transplant it to a different item entirely, it's impossible to tell.

With a lack of similar known AVeM pieces, should the label be taken at immediate face value?

[glassobsessed]

Interesting, good point Nic, the label does look a bit squished on the one side. If not Avem then perhaps the same maker as the bird.