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Title: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: adam20 on June 12, 2011, 10:25:20 AM
metal base with clear fading to blue at base vase - label Lavarato a Mano - CS - made in Italy - not sure if Murano - 5" high

Any information welcomed
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 12, 2011, 11:07:15 AM
 :24:
"Lavarato a Mano" means "wash by hand". I don't think it's the name of a glassmaking company.  :ooh:
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: Ivo on June 12, 2011, 11:58:04 AM
LavOrato a mano is hand made, it may refer to the artsy gluing of shells to the foot, not to the glass itself we may very well be Chinese.
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 12, 2011, 12:22:52 PM
 :pb:
But I did have two spelling options, Ivo - I just chose the wrong one and translated it wrongly...sorry. :-[
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: rosieposie on June 12, 2011, 05:38:18 PM
Don't feel badly Adam, someone else thought it was a famous maker.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=370396958444&nma=true&rt=nc&si=tTOpO6NYNb1G4rtAIny%252BGEKjziA%253D

Sue, I was thinking the same as you and  :24:  but I am not going to  :pb: myself!
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 12, 2011, 06:39:27 PM
We've had a couple of things like this before
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,18202.msg105228.html#msg105228
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,21371.msg120466.html#msg120466
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: johnphilip on June 14, 2011, 06:17:53 AM
Rosie really thought it meant give your old man a good  scrub down . :o :24:
Title: Re: Lavarato a Mano vase
Post by: rosieposie on June 14, 2011, 08:33:31 AM
No she did not JP!! She thought it meant 'Now wash your hands'!!  :srn:   And I will have you know, my 'Old Man' is younger than me......so there!! :chky: