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Title: Swan or Duck Bowl ? - ID = J.I Co. (Jordan's Importing) No. 9002
Post by: Gilead on April 16, 2008, 10:00:55 PM
Hi
   bought this along with the Whitefriar vase i posted, can anyone tell me if it is a swan or a duck, or even a goose?
It has a amber head and base with green upper body and wings,the pontil as some wear and is ground.

Inside this glas is the pontil which is polished would this have been broke off from there, and not underneath? Czech would you say or Scandi. please dont say murano as it seems when i think that im totaly wrong, height of the head is 6ins wing span 8.5ins from tip to tip, nape of neck to tip of tail is 8.5ins.

one wing higher than the other.thanks for any help in the ID
                                                                                  Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Pip on April 16, 2008, 10:07:12 PM
Hi
   bought this along with the Whitefriar vase i posted, can anyone tell me if it is a swan or a duck, or even a goose?
Steve

Hi, it's a stylised bird - I don't think it's an anatomical representation of any particular species so I personally wouldn't get hung up on trying to pin it down more than that.  Nice colours btw.
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Leni on April 17, 2008, 07:53:36 AM
Has a look of Chalet about it.  Did they do birds?  :-\ 

Is there any uranium in that green?  It's a very effective use of the colour combination!  :D
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Gilead on April 17, 2008, 12:23:13 PM
Hi Leni
          No Uranium in the green the photo's dont really do this piece jutice the colours are very vibrant and change in the sunlight, (Chalet?)

the colours go from amber to yellow from dark green to lime. and feels nice to the touch,  ;)
                                                                                                                           Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: shandiane78 on April 17, 2008, 07:26:07 PM
It's Murano glass from the 50's or 60's - Imported by J.I. Co (Jordan's Importing Company).
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Gilead on April 17, 2008, 07:47:52 PM
Hi Shannon
                Thank you. can i ask how you know this please, do you have or had a piece like this, i have been getting most of this sort of glass from one sorce and have bee told by him that it,s 50s 60s or there about's but he seems to say this to any glass  :).

Would you say it is a bowl or a ciggie holder, what ever it as a nice feel to it, very smooth,  ;)
                                                                                                                                Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: shandiane78 on April 17, 2008, 08:12:02 PM
I've seen a few with labels (mostly on ebay). J.I. Co designed and imported Murano glass in the 50's and  60's.
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Gilead on April 17, 2008, 08:26:09 PM
Shannon
           Cheers for the info much appreciated, it's gone into hibernation at the moment ;D a box ready for the move. i suppose i will never find out just what work shop  :P well maybe one day.
                                                                   Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: Gilead on April 18, 2008, 09:46:34 AM
Have a little hope that this might be a Salviati bird bowl as it is i have found out to be the typical murano colours, and the JI co closed in the 1970s so Shannon looks as though you are bang on the button with whom imported it, from Italy,
                                                                                                                                 Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: TxSilver on April 18, 2008, 01:19:47 PM
I don't want to dampen your hope, but it doesn't look like Salviati. I would say that Shandiane is right about the JI Co attribution.

Anita
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ?
Post by: DreamingGlass on April 19, 2008, 03:43:13 AM
Shannon is correct. This is Jordan's Importing No. 9002.
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ? - ID = J.I Co. (Jordan's Importing) No. 9002
Post by: shandiane78 on April 19, 2008, 06:17:28 PM
Cathy, is that you?
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ? - ID = J.I Co. (Jordan's Importing) No. 9002
Post by: Gilead on April 20, 2008, 12:51:22 AM
Hi Anita
           No Never my hope is eternal, if you have'nt got hope what have we got  :), and i thank you for your input, along with DreamingGlass for the No 9002, also Shannon for nailing it, i really like this piece and the way it changes in different light, may i ask with the No 9002 can i any way find more from that, if so where from please,
                                                                  Steve
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ? - ID = J.I Co. (Jordan's Importing) No. 9002
Post by: shandiane78 on April 20, 2008, 06:02:36 PM
There's no definitive guide to who has designed or made the glass which was imported by J.I. Co. Some of the items can be attributed, but most cannot at this time.

It's my belief that pieces like yours were designed by J.I. Co and produced in their own Murano factory. This is based on the fact that the bird bowls, and other similarly designed bowls don't strongly resemble the work of any of the notable Murano glass houses. We know that the owner, Jack Blanco, designed much of glass, and they did have their own furnace on the island.
Title: Re: Swan or Duck Bowl ? - ID = J.I Co. (Jordan's Importing) No. 9002
Post by: Gilead on April 21, 2008, 01:34:19 AM
Shannon
             Very interesting and thank you for the info, i will have to wait for a few week's now as i am switching my PC off mid wk to pack it up for the move and Virgin have told me i have to wait two wks to get connected at the new place.

So until then stay safe and thanks again.
                                                       steve