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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: user9318 on June 18, 2012, 02:32:33 PM
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Not sure if this paperweight is an older Chinese weight or a Murano weight.
Size 2" tall approx 2.75" diameter approx
Many thanks in advance
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Hi
It is a Chinese weight (although similar items have in the past turned up for sale in Murano....but I believe that the authorities are trying to put a stop to re-badging Chinese imports as Murano items). They made ones like this for a number of years, including quite recently. If you search the Chinese makers websites you will find broadly similar pieces.
Alan
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Thank you for the reply Alan.
I was thinking it was Chinese, but you can never be totally sure.
Do you this is an earlier Chinese weight or newer, the weight does have a greyish tinge to the glass (which made me think it was an earlier one) what would the rough date be?
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My guess is 90s based on stuff I've picked up over the years.
The oldest Chinese millefiori had very thin flat cane pieces. Newer pieces are 'chunkier'.
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That pattern of weight, with six arms separating a three-cane group (or a six-cane group in larger versions) occurred frequently in a Chinese trade catalogue I received in 1999 or 2000.
I guess the pattern was used for a number of years before that, but it is still a regular pattern in current Chinese weights.
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I think it is late 20th century too.
Alan
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Thank you to all for help on this paperweight.