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Title: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: malcmat on October 17, 2011, 09:59:18 AM

Hi, just trying to i/d the origin and era of this weight. 3.25 inches dia and 2.75 inches tall. It weighs 825g with a polished flat base with ware scratches. Its a red interior surrounded in clear glass with controlled bubbles. I was thinking murano but not sure.
many thanks
Malcolm

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 17, 2011, 11:12:45 AM

Czech and sold under the Jaffe Rose label may be more likely

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: Sach on October 18, 2011, 02:00:24 AM

This sort of weight could have been made by anyone who owns a "pineapple"  optic mold.  Meaning almost anyone.

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: ahremck on October 18, 2011, 08:59:51 AM

What I find intriguing are the bubbles inside the red layer?  Not like anything I know of.

Ross

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: KevinH on October 18, 2011, 08:42:01 PM

The "inner" bubbles could easily be just the "outer" bubbles on the far side showing through the transluscent red.

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: malcmat on October 18, 2011, 09:20:38 PM

Hi the bubbles are not in the red part of the weight they just surround it.
Many thanks
Malcolm

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: Ivo on October 18, 2011, 09:35:33 PM

I've also seen these in red, blue and green - with a Japanese label.

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: chriscooper on October 18, 2011, 09:53:21 PM

The Jaffe Rose ones I have seen have been mostly apples & pears with small tight bubbles or more of a dome shape paperweight with an inner core normally amber ruby or blue and green  the bubbles tend to just in the core?
Also they would have imported glass from other sources including Murano.

Chris

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 19, 2011, 06:46:49 AM

Jaffe Rose are thought to have imported mostly Czech glass (though they dealt in China as well).

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: chriscooper on October 19, 2011, 11:54:36 AM

Just giving my opinion that it appears  Jaffe Rose did import from other countries. I have seen boxed labelled examples in the domed shaped with the central coloured core similar to the one your gallery and a doorstop like this one in the link....

http://www.whitefriars.com/isit_contents.php?pageNum_Mistaken=2&totalRows_Mistaken=487&ID=9329

Which are well documented to be Czech.
The one in the post IMHO looks very different in style to these. Galliano Ferro is documented  exporting from Murano through the importers Jaffe Rose and examples of the Jaffe Rose Murano import labels have turned up on Galliano Ferro pieces so perhaps another avenue to explore?

Chris  

Title: Re: controlled bubble p/w ?
Post by: chriscooper on October 23, 2011, 11:35:35 PM

http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/murano_glass/gallianoferro_glass/gallianoferroglass_home.html

Jaffe Rose import label on a Murano piece here.

Chris