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Title: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 03, 2011, 08:25:21 PM
Hi.  I picked this item up recently because I thought it was unusual.  The bowl and lid form a perfect sphere(except for flattened top and bottom).  The outer glass is shiny and the inner is frosted with an indented design.  The glass is about half an inch thick, so it's very heavy.  I don't think it's old but just wondered what on earth it is.  Seems too heavy to be a trinket dish, and is big enough to make it difficult to lift the lid off with one hand.  Just curious to see if anyone knows what it is?  Many thanks.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: flying free on June 05, 2011, 12:26:10 PM
Hi and welcome to the board  :rah:
there are many members who don't always visit everyday, so if you can wait awhile I'm sure someone will be along who may have some insight into what looks to be a gorgeous piece of heavy glass  :sun:
Personally I'd use it as a sculpture and light it accordingly :) but I'm afraid I can't help at the mo with any further info.
m
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: glassobsessed on June 05, 2011, 12:28:18 PM
Welcome to the board. Don't give up yet, not everyone visits the board everyday.

It is hard to see any detail in your photograph, maybe another photo of the top with the design on it would be useful.
How big is it and how is the base finished?

John

Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 05, 2011, 01:28:29 PM
 :hi: Welcome!

It's possibly for talcum powder and a powder puff.......
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 05, 2011, 01:46:49 PM
Thank you all for the welcome and your ideas.  I will try to load more photos but found that I had to drastically reduce the quality to get it to an acceptable size, so any tips re reducing size would be great.

Re powder holder -- I did think of that but the top and bottom weight over 600g apiece, so a bit unweildy.  Also, the diameter is just over 5" so again not too easy to lift with one dainty little hand.

When I came upon this piece it was being displayed as two separate bowls, as both top and bottom have flat circles (but in same finish as the rest as the outside).  I will try to get more photos up.

I notice you paraphrasing Leonard Cohen Sue -- a fan?

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 05, 2011, 02:03:55 PM
Here a couple more images so that you can see the pattern more clearly.  One of the outside and the other of the inside.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 05, 2011, 02:23:06 PM
 :24:

 :-[ I saw the quote on a greetings card - I didn't know it was Leonard Cohen, but as I'm a huge fan - have been since the early '70s, of both his music and his literature, so I'm not surprised a quote, however misplaced or nicked, might have appealed to me!

An old powder puff thingy might well have been very heavy - the talc would have been puffed about "all over" (paraphrasing 'enery cooper?) the body after bathing - and a very heavy thingy would mean it would be hard to tip over. It would simply sit on the dressing table.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 05, 2011, 02:32:30 PM
The best way for photos is to resize a high-res photo so that the maximum dimension is 700 pixels; that way you get a good size without loss of resolution. You have 125kb per photo, not per post.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on June 08, 2011, 10:24:23 PM
Might be worth bouncing it off the Scottish glass society as it might be one of their members,
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 08, 2011, 10:46:31 PM
That sounds like a good idea.  Thanks Frank.

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 09, 2011, 10:49:08 AM
 :hi:

Sometimes you'll get an answer in 30 seconds - other times, it could be weeks, months or even years before something can be identified, sometimes you just drop off the bottom of the page into obscurity - or the "unresolved queries" forum.
 
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Anne on June 09, 2011, 10:58:11 PM
But you will get reviewed, rescued, bumped or id'd in due course, I'm sure... it just may take a while! :)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 09, 2011, 11:19:14 PM
In the meantime I'm kinda following Frank's advise in that I'm going to post a query on Scotland's Glass.  I'm just waiting for my registration to be accepted.  If I find out what it is, I'll let you know.

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 10, 2011, 06:26:20 AM
Scotland's Glass and the Scottish Glass Society (http://www.scottishglasssociety.com/) are not the same thing
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 10, 2011, 08:11:06 AM
Hi.  Yes, I know.  I went to the Scottish Glass Society but I couldn't see a facility for logging a query with photos so I followed a link and found Scotland's Glass, which does have that facility . . . hence I'm 'kiinda following Frank's advice'.  I hope I haven't committed some kind of faux pas!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 10, 2011, 08:16:42 AM
No, no faux pas.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on June 11, 2011, 12:41:20 AM
You have to send an e-mail to the SGS and with luck they will not forward it to me... not that I mind of course. Made at least one great discovery through that route. I doubt they will see it on SG but the more exposure the quicker an answer. As somebody out there does know!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 11, 2011, 10:54:42 AM
Nancy, this is a beautiful bowl....could you not try to attract Pamela's attention?  I am certain she would know of it.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 11, 2011, 11:29:08 AM
Frank - thanks so much for taking an interest in this.  I would have to pay a fee to join the Scottish Glass Society, and that's just not a viable option just now!

Rosie - I'm new to this forum and don't know who Pamela is but am assuming she is a member so perhaps she will see this post at some point.  Why would she be likely to know of it?

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 11, 2011, 07:48:48 PM
Hi Nancy....sorry, please forgive me, I tend to forget that we all had to start as new members. :usd:

Pamela has the most amazing collection of pressed glass.....she is in Germany, and is a member here that I (in fact probably all of us!) always turn to when I have a pressed glass query. her site is http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/ and you can look through that lot when you have a few hours to spare and a large cup of tea!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 12, 2011, 12:31:08 PM
Hi Rosie.  Oh I know that site.  It's wonderful and i have spent many an hour looking through it.  It's a wonderful resource.  But I don't think the piece I have is pressed glass as it is completely smooth, ie no seams.  But not being in any way knowledgeable about what constitutes pressed glass I many be wrong.  Would it be normal for a piece to be smooth and shiny on one surface and frosted on the other?

(I'm actually watching an ashtray on ebay which I found an almost match for on that website.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140559365486&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT
http://pressglas-pavillon.de/index2.html

Many thanks Rosie.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 12, 2011, 12:47:10 PM
Quite often pressed glass is finished off by hand - the base may be polished, or any mould seams polished out - it's a mark of quality.
I had wondered a bit if your glass might be Walther - modern Walther has a tendency to be flowery in this sort of manner - but don't pay too much attention to me on this - it's not my area at all.  :pb:
Satinisation can be achieved using acid, or sandblasting - possibly a mould too.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 12, 2011, 01:17:56 PM
Hi Nancy,  Sue is too modest....everything she has said is correct.  I have been searching through Mikasa glass, and even wondered if it might be Reich (Riech?) but it is a very stylish piece and I believe it is quality and worth continued searching to find an attribution.  The pictures on Pamela's site are not the only thing she has reference to....they are her collection,  so it might be worth dropping her an email and ask if she would be kind enough to have a look at your thread ( send the url to it) and when she has time, I am sure she will.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 12, 2011, 01:29:21 PM
Many thanks Sue and Rosie.  Rosie, I will do just as you suggested.  I am heartened by the opinion that it is a quality piece.  Isn't glass interesting!!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 12, 2011, 01:32:35 PM
  Isn't glass interesting!!

Not in the least bit Nancy,  we are just nuts!! :24:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: pamela on June 12, 2011, 06:24:49 PM
 :hi: Nancy, thanks for your mail!

I had seen your inquiry about that lovely box but did not comment as I really don't know who or when, I'm afraid.

I think it is pressed, you need a mould for such a decor. But for a shallow bowl like this lid, the mould could be of one piece and consequently show no seams at all. Or, of course, as Sue said, seams have been removed by either fire polishing, acid or grinding.

I don't think your box and my  ashtray  (http://pressglas-pavillon.de/aschenbecher/04138.html) are related, I only think that both could probably originate from USA?
 :ooh:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 12, 2011, 06:39:52 PM
Hi Pamela.  I have replied to your email.  Many thanks for your interest.  I am enjoying the detective work.

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 12, 2011, 06:55:28 PM
 :smg:

Just another of the joys of glass, Nancy - loads and loads and loads still to be found out, all the fun of sleuthing, the triumph when something IS discovered..... then there are all the weird and wonderful things you find out along the way.  :sun:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 12, 2011, 09:10:25 PM
You're right there Sue.  The trouble is, the more you look and learn, the more you want to possess all of the beautiful glass stuff out there.  I'd be dangerous if I had money . . .

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 12, 2011, 10:34:44 PM
  I'd be dangerous if I had money . . .
Then you have joined the right club......welcome to the glassily-challenged! :thup:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on June 21, 2011, 03:02:41 PM
I haven't made any progress with this but have an application in at glass-forums.com (US) so once that's processed I'll post a query.  In the meantime, here are a couple more photos.  (Trying to keep you interested . . .)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 09, 2011, 07:15:37 AM
This is a friendly bump.  I've kind of lost hope of finding out the who/where/why of this thing.  But I would be interested to hear what anyone might think as to its reason for being. My feeling is that maybe it was made by an art student as their graduation piece, or something like that.  It seems to serve no useful purpose because, as I said earlier, it is really too heavy to be some sort of trinket or powder box (in my opinion).  Just a tad cumbersome.  So any thoughts would be appreciated (not looking for ID - just thoughts about it as a glass object).  Thanks!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on July 09, 2011, 02:38:00 PM
No, no NO!  You can't give up!  I am still looking on a daily basis for this piece.....I am sure it is very special...maybe from one of the more expensive pefume and toiletry houses.  I see it on a par with Lalique, and I am not ready to give up yet!  Heavens above, I am still looking for Paul S's pink bowl with the hot worked edge, and that was AGES ago.......
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 09, 2011, 03:04:37 PM
Hi Rosie.  It's the fact that I kind find ANYTHING like it that makes me think it must be a one-off and I'm therefore unlikely to discover its origins.  But it's VERY heartening to know that you are also looking out for it!  No, I won't give up exactly, but having searched and searched I'm pretty resigned to not finding an answer.  (Maybe it's like waiting for a bus - none comes along until you pretend you don't really want one -- know what I mean?)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on July 09, 2011, 03:08:54 PM
Yes, I do!!
And I am now looking for pink glass salad servers!!   :usd:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 09, 2011, 03:24:50 PM
Ha!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 10, 2011, 11:18:53 AM
This is often how things do get id'd, Nancy - folk see interesting things and they get stored away in the recesses of their brains, and if anything relevant appears on the general scene, it gets noted!

I'm now on the look-out for pink salad servers for Rosie as well as this ball of yours!

by the way - would you please shove this vase of mine in the recesses of your brain for a similar noting?  :-*

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=40718.new;topicseen#new

Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on July 10, 2011, 12:30:13 PM
Hi Sue,  the glass salad servers are for wolkenreb, not me.....he mentioned that he was on the look out for a pair in pink in Aniks thread about her Hermanova Hut fish dish!! :sun:

I have a lovely clear glass (? Crystal) pair in lovely condition if you want them wolkenreb??? ;D
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 10, 2011, 12:54:54 PM
Okey-dokey - if they get found, they'd still get to the right place!
ps. wolkenreb is a lady.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on July 10, 2011, 02:01:46 PM
 :pb: I didn't know!!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: chopin-liszt on July 10, 2011, 02:55:30 PM
 :-*
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: flying free on July 11, 2011, 08:24:58 AM
just a question - if you set both bowl bits down on their cut edge next to each other, is the design the exactly the same way round, or the opposite i.e. you could make a pair of eyes with it?
m
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 11, 2011, 09:22:58 AM
Oh dear - I need to clear something up re the pink salad servers!!!  I mentioned that I had seen the dessert bowls on ebay which came with matching salad servers and I bid for the lot but lost. I am keeping a lookout for another set, but only out of interest  . . not to buy, yet anyway.  So Rosie and Sue, please don't waste your energies looking for pink salad servers for me!!!!  Whew!  (and I am female but not sure about the lady bit Sue!)

Back to the glass box thingy - Flying Free asked about the pattern matching or not when both halves are set on their rims.  The answer is the pattern is the same on each ie not mirror images.  I wonder why you asked?

Nancy
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on July 11, 2011, 09:29:38 AM
Good morning Lady Nancy!!  Won't spend time looking for the salad servers then, but if you would like the clear crystal Art Deco ones I have, you are still most welcome.

There is a complete green set on eBay at the moment, but it isn't a proper matching set as the underplate is the Stolzle Squared Eye pattern.

I love this spherical bowl of yours, and will still spend some time each day researching it.....you never know????  :X:
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 11, 2011, 11:03:26 AM
Rosie - many thanks for the offer of the crystal servers. I'm sending you a pm.

Re my theory that the glass box thingy might be a 'graduation' piece, if such things do indeed exist, any thoughts?  Is there anything about this piece that might reveal when it might have been made?  Would it  have been difficult to make?

Ta!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on July 13, 2011, 06:00:08 PM
Similarity

http://pressglas-pavillon.de/deckeldosen/09354.html

Perhaps the inspiration for yours...
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on July 13, 2011, 06:45:05 PM
Thanks Frank.  Yes, that's one of the two slightly similar pieces I've been able to find.  It may also have been the inspiration for this Lalique design

http://blog.sub-studio.com/2008/01/lalique-vibration-box/

Both have their designs on the outside rather than the inside though.  Interesting to note though that the blogger comments that the Lalique box seems to serve no practical purpose - just a pretty object.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on July 13, 2011, 07:10:22 PM
... just a pretty object.

Which seems to be the purpose of many of our collectables!

Advantage of internal design is easy cleaning.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on October 04, 2011, 11:16:38 AM
Bump!  I was thinking that if, as appears likely, this was made in a mould (same mould for each half as they are identical except for joining rims), surely more must have been produced ie, what a waste of time and effort in making a mould for just one finished piece?  Which would lead me to think that there are other examples out there somewhere!  Here's hoping . . .
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on October 04, 2011, 11:58:37 AM


I'm glad you have bumped this piece!!
I've been racking my brains over this piece as well....probably because I like it so much........I never stop looking until an attribution is given, so we will find it Nancy,  it is just a more elusive piece!!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on October 04, 2011, 12:45:09 PM
Hey Rosie.  I knew you'd still be on the case!  You must have a list a mile long of stuff you're looking into for other folk and it is certainly much appreciated!  Yes, I'd love to get to the bottom of this one!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on April 03, 2012, 07:06:20 PM
Had a little frisson of excitement when I saw this glass box, signed Costebelle.  However, it's really only similar in that it's spherical, white and has a nice pattern.  Different size and the pattern is on the inside of mine.  Still, it does show that there a similar-ish items out there, so mustn't give up hope.
http://www.chinons.fr/voirplus-468-boite_art_deco_en_verre_signe_costebelle.html
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Post by: rosieposie on April 03, 2012, 07:21:50 PM
Oh Nancy,  that is the most exciting look-a-like find so far....frisson,  that was une terre véritable émouvant....and yes,  I never give up!! 
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Post by: wolkenreb on April 03, 2012, 07:35:36 PM
I'm glad la terre moved for you Rosie!!!  Oh it would be just wonderful to find out more about it - there MUST be more out there as surely it was made from a mold.  And I know you never give up - thank goodness for us!  :)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: flying free on April 04, 2012, 07:12:06 AM
Nancy I'm curious (having not reread the entire thread you understand  ;D) as to why they would have made a lidded box with a design on base and lid.  Is yours the same size as this one? did they come from a trinket set maybe?
m
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Post by: wolkenreb on April 04, 2012, 12:21:49 PM
I don't understand your question Michelle!  Why not have the design on both parts, as does the Costebelle one I gave the link to above?  (You were the first to reply to my original post on this subject BTW!)  In my opinion, it's definitely too large (5" diameter) and heavy to be a trinket box.  Not only that, because the outside is smooth and shiny it could easily slip out of your hand.  I have come to the conclusion, though I could be wrong, that it is purely decorative and perhaps was made as a graduation piece, but I'd love to hear what others think about that.  In the meantime, here are some more pics.  (I wish I could find a way of showing the contours on the inside!)  Thanks for your interest Michelle (don't you want to look at my nice 'head  & shoulders paperweight - maybe I should change the title?)
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Post by: flying free on April 04, 2012, 01:57:38 PM
Nancy I was just wondering if it was meant somehow to sit in a stand of some sort, kind of a raised support thing so you could see the base and the top.  I love it, but I'm still curious as to why the design is on the base and the lid, since if it sat on the base it could get damaged is what I mean.
I have kids home and on the computer so limited time to look at thread, but I've just seen 'Head and Shoulders' and he is absolutely wonderful - very envious.
m
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on April 04, 2012, 02:59:26 PM
Oh, I think I see what you mean Michelle.  The whole thing could actually sit either way up as both 'poles' (north & south) are smooth and flat.  But the etching (or whatever it is) is on the inside anyway, so well protected from damage.

(Glad you like Mr Head & Shoulders - I think he's gorgeous!)
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Post by: rosieposie on August 26, 2012, 12:39:21 AM
Hi Nancy, have you seen this listing?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120974191122

It just might be the same maker... who knows??

Rosie.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on August 26, 2012, 06:35:11 PM
Hey Rosie . . . Thanks for the post. Yes, I had seen the glass baseball before but didn't really see it as very similar to my 'spherical object' except of course for the shape and that it is a bowl and lid. Everything else about it is completely different though, including the ball having the maker's mark. Do you think perhaps I'm being too dismissive?!  ???

I've not done much looking for glass since I started working (hurrah!) - too knackered! That and having no room left cos everything is covered in glass.  ::)

Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: NMott on August 26, 2012, 11:05:35 PM
I suspect it was for cold cream, and sat on a dressing table, rather than for candy.
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Post by: rosieposie on August 27, 2012, 12:40:51 AM
Well Nancy, I did say I never give up looking!!
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on November 14, 2012, 10:52:12 PM
If it was a cosmetics counter display, that might explain scarcity... but should find a match in a smaller item as far as the design is concerned but possibly with design on only the lid and a base that may not even be glass. It could have been supplied to shops in a display stand with both faces vertical for all round visibility.
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Post by: rosieposie on November 14, 2012, 11:16:32 PM
I'm still looking too Nancy....nothind else as yet. :(
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on May 04, 2013, 10:37:08 PM
This isn't a bump!  ;)

I'm adding a couple of pics that show the piece in a slightly different light. The flatness of the top (bottom exactly the same) clearly shown.  'Jobseeking' once again so more time for glass :-)

Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on May 05, 2013, 11:22:23 AM
Oh Nancy,  I still love this piece and would you believe I am still always on the lookout for any hint of identification for it.... one day!! :)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: wolkenreb on May 05, 2013, 02:17:41 PM
Yes, one day, Rosie!  :)
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Post by: rosieposie on June 29, 2015, 12:12:44 PM
Hi Nancy... I said I never give up!!  :o
Look at this one... with a label! 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Murano-Medici-Cristalleria-Lidded-Glass-Bowl-/151728910798?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item2353bf71ce

I think it is your lidded bowl!!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 29, 2015, 12:56:11 PM
I think Medici Cristalleria may be a trademark of Corba, whoever they are
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Post by: rosieposie on June 29, 2015, 12:59:12 PM
We have been looking for 4 years, so hopefully Nancy will be glad to have some attribution. :)
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Post by: wolkenreb on June 29, 2015, 02:22:44 PM
WOW WOW WOW ROSIE!!! You did it you super-sleuth you! I can't believe it! I'm flabbergasted! Thank you SO much. I never, ever thought we'd find a maker, but you did! I am SO delighted  :D :D :D :-* :-* :-*
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: rosieposie on June 29, 2015, 02:46:56 PM
Neither could I believe it Nancy !!  I am so pleased, and it was a pleasure... (and a relief!) after all this time!  :)
Rosie.
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Anne on June 29, 2015, 08:37:47 PM
I think Nancy's one is a little smaller and lighter than the eBay one, but they certainly look to be the same design. Perhaps they came in several sizes? Well found Rosie! :)
Title: Re: Heavy spherical bowl & lid - anyone know what it is?
Post by: Frank on September 07, 2015, 03:26:40 PM
Well done Rosie. Probably a retailer/wholesaler, but also does glass/mirror installations.

Vetreria Medici SNC
Via Viazzolo Lungo 24/2
42016 Guastalla
Reggio nell'Emilia - Emilia-Romagna - Italy

Google maps has a street view showing the shop

Corba Cristalleria seems to be (have been?) an importer of crystal glass in Tuscany. Website dead www.corbacristalleria.it