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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: josordoni on October 17, 2006, 02:48:14 PM
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So in wandering about trying to find some pictures of Bacchus canes to compare with my little button paperweight, I found this listing.
Why does the base on the supposed Bacchus weight remind me of egg fried rice? Or am I just making assumptions again?
ebay paperweight (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2-Early-Glass-Paperweights-Bacchus-Millefiori-Old-NR_W0QQitemZ120037087701QQihZ002QQcategoryZ2744QQssPageNameZWD2VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)
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Even with my limited knowledge I'd go for egg fried rice and sweet and sour :lol:
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Good Day, Lynne. :) My very first thought when I looked at these two weights was that the cane weight was of Chinese origin (in Murano style?) and the lily weight looks like an older American style. Now I have to add I just woke up (involuntarily), I'm grumpy, and my eyes are watering so don't take this as absolute. Hope you're having a good one.
All the best ... Lily
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I'd guess the millefiori one was definitely Chinese! The matt base is a clue, although modern Chinese weights are being finished with a polished base these days.
The second one? Your guess is as good as mine! I reckon everyone and their dog has made a version of these! :lol:
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I think the question is as much when were Bacchus weights finished with a matt base.....??
Not that it is a nasty weight, but it does seem as though it is being passed off as something it isn't.
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I don't know about the pick work one but the millefiori is definitely Chinese. Matte bases are fairly typical but if I saw those canes in a polished or hollow ground weight I would still say it's Chinese. It's not particularly old either. I have a couple of weights like that.
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The millefiori paperweight is China-made in the Italian style. These weights began showing up in the very late 1990s.
The other weight - trumpet petals and unfinished pontil - is United States-made, with a very outside possibility of it being made along the German-Czech border. But, I'd go with North American.
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Well, judging by the price they made in the end nobody liked them very much.