Topic: Mystery Art Glass Vase

[Jazzy64]

Hello,

Please could anyone identify this large vase?  I purchased it as Murano but the seller knew no more about it.

The vase has a frosted outside surface and glossy inside.  There is a multi coloured foil decoration to the inside which you can feel with your fingers.  There are also what appears to be 2 vertical lines of murrines which are sandwiched between layers of glass, so can not be felt from the inside or the outside.

Strangely there is not only a pontil mark to the base outside, but there is also a pontil mark on the base inside, so it appears the whole vase has been turned inside out.

There looks like there are two signatures to the base and a number 8.

Please can anyone help?

Height: approximately 33cms
Width: approximately 15 cms.

Many thanks 

J

[glassobsessed]

Interesting vase, I wonder if it was a collaboration - it looks as if it is signed with two different scripts.

Reminiscent of some of the high end work from Fratelli Toso - I will look in the FT book when I get home later.

John

[Jazzy64]

Hi John,

That would be great if you could - thank you 

J

[glassobsessed]

Nothing useful in Pina's book on Fratelli Toso, little apparent wear on the base might suggest it was made more recently.

[Jazzy64]

Hi John,

Thank you for looking!

I have managed to take it to a friend of mine who is a glass maker to see if they had any ideas about it... they do not think it has been turned inside out - the mark on the inside is from the way it was made - apparently it was a slab of glass that was heated up and then rolled into the cylinder vase on an iron.  An old style of Murano design - but this could have been made around the 1990s.  They also wonder if the signatures could be Livio (for Livio Serena) and Yoichi (for Yoichi Ohira).

Would you have any ideas on this view?  This is getting more and more interesting!!!

Many thanks

J

[glassobsessed]

Sounds possible, they worked with Murrine and powder, looks consistent enough.