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Title: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 13, 2008, 12:32:49 PM
Hi Just found these pixs, and of a giant glass horse.....and their link of their pictures:

http://i440.photobucket.com/albums/qq127/Swooner2/Italy/P1070187.jpg
http://photobucket.com/images/murano%20glass/

Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Anne on September 13, 2008, 02:18:29 PM
Goodness me Rose, that is a big horse! :o  What a shame it doesn't say which Murano glassworks.
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Frank on September 13, 2008, 04:03:22 PM
Need a picture of the bottom.
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 14, 2008, 08:01:49 AM
All I could find there....was this other pix

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b48/Juicey52/Venice/27cb.jpg it just said Murano Glass Factory

And I found this photo too, and it looks like (maybe a name) in the corner ??

http://s440.photobucket.com/albums/qq127/Swooner2/Italy/?action=view&current=P1070192.jpg


 :-\
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Tigerchips on September 14, 2008, 09:00:04 AM
Need a picture of the bottom.
:clap:

yeah, ahem...
http://media.photobucket.com/image/murano%20glass/Swooner2/Italy/P1070186.jpg?o=6
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Frank on September 14, 2008, 01:26:16 PM
Did you see the no cameras sign? I guess they are worried about a flood of repros on eBay.
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Anne on September 14, 2008, 06:54:57 PM
Clearly the folks taking the pics didn't see it Frank. ;)
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 26, 2008, 04:11:09 AM
Hi, I have been advised that this horse was made by a Pino Signoretto for the Venice Biennial in 1999.

http://www.pinosignoretto.it/prodotti_eng.php?cat=4&prod=139&pag=1

I must say, what a beautiful piece...and so large.  WOW  :clap:
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: soledivo on September 26, 2008, 07:29:17 PM
I tend to stay away from post's that start with "wow"

but WOW what else could you say Rose, what a beauty.
thanks for sharing it.   :o
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 26, 2008, 11:36:50 PM

Here is a link to some information on Pino Signoretto: http://www.nautica.it/superyacht/539/arte/signorettoeng.htm

and these: 
~ http://www.alicefinearts.com/biografia%20pino%20signoretto.htm
~ http://www.amarynth.com/flash/gallery/glass/pino_signoretto/pino_signoretto.html

Just look at that * Giant Sized Clown * besides him, it must be 5 feet tall....again WOW

I tend to stay away from post's that start with "wow" but WOW     what else could you say Rose, what a beauty.
thanks for sharing it.   :o

 :clap: See sometime *WOW* is a Good Thing...  ;) ;)
Thxs, and Thank Anne for moving it over here - from the Cafe.
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: shandiane78 on September 27, 2008, 04:40:14 PM
That's amazing and GORGEOUS!
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 27, 2008, 09:46:44 PM
That's amazing and GORGEOUS!

Hi shandiane -
You must have liked the *Giant Sized Clown* in that one link too.  You need one for your living room, I think. ;) So make sure you put that on your Xmas list.  I sure would...

As for the *Giant Horse*, one of the links says the SIZE of it is 3m X 4m.  No wonder it needs metal supports.  I would not even want to SNEEZE around it...
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Pip on September 29, 2008, 12:21:12 PM
Personally I'm not one for giant glass horses or clowns but it's an impressive piece Rose and I can certainly understand the attraction for many.  However, following your Photobucket link I found the following glass sculpture - *this* is WOW to me (in fact it reminds me of my hair circa 1980) ...

http://media.photobucket.com/image/murano%20glass/kszucs/Venice/VeniceMarch15-16070.jpg?o=135
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: TxSilver on October 05, 2008, 11:06:27 PM
Thought I would post a picture of my 10" Signoretto horse. The horse recently sold. The buyer was very happy, since Signoretto is hard to find at reasonable prices. I hope it was the horse's last trip in the mail.

Anita
Title: Re: Wow - One Giant Murano horse...
Post by: Artofvenice on October 20, 2008, 09:54:50 PM
This horse has a long story...
The design was made by a famous venetian painter, De Luigi, than it was realized by Pino Signoretto under the DeLuigi artistic direction.
The production had several troubles: the horse is made by several pieces in some way attached and glued toghether, but this process doesn't success very well at the beginning, but Singoretto is really the master for heavy glassworks.
At the end Signoretto wanted to have the piece atributed to himself as a "singoretto" artwork.
But also DeLuigi wanted to "sign" the piece and they had a kind of trial on this issue...
Now I don't remeber how it finished the story  :P... , but I will look for some info and I will write the end soon...

Anyway the size is incredible, pratically a real big horse...

Ciao

Alex
www.artofvenice.com (http://www.artofvenice.com)