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Title: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: chriscooper on December 14, 2011, 09:10:33 PM: Pink core heavily cased in clear crystal, more triangular in shape than it looks in the photo, 5" from corner to corner, heavy quality looking piece......

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-STxkY1Gkudg/TuikxoCipiI/AAAAAAAAU6w/bINf4mQGRCE/s640/SDC10991.JPG
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-30Fjle2irJo/TuilNTD7tlI/AAAAAAAAU60/CoqPMRgpjI8/s640/SDC10994.JPG

Thanks for looking Chris
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: langhaugh on December 15, 2011, 02:11:23 AM: Gorgeous piece. Lovely form and colours. Another reason why I can't wait for the Seguso Vetri d'Arte book to come out. That's my first guess.

David
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: ahremck on December 15, 2011, 02:21:36 AM: :thup: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

What a cracker of an item. Lovely finishing on what would have been a lovely geode bowl in its own right.

Ross
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: TxSilver on December 15, 2011, 03:26:36 AM: I also had the idea of Seguso VdA, though I also wondered about Cenedese. The texture of the outer glass make me lean toward Seguso.
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: kane_u_pain on December 15, 2011, 09:31:11 AM: My first thought was Seguso on this. How thick is the glass?
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: chriscooper on December 15, 2011, 08:15:33 PM: Really is a nice piece, afraid the photos, which I didn't take don't really do it justice.
Will take some more at the weekend. the glass is over an inch thick and weighs 1.3 kg

Chris
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: ardy on December 17, 2011, 09:44:02 PM: Gorgeous piece of glass. I was wondering if it had a lid at one stage and was part of a perfume set? The flat area around the top got me thinking. Don't think it is an ashtray.

SVDA is a good guess David, what a great looking thing?
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: langhaugh on December 18, 2011, 12:34:29 AM: I can't see it with a lid, especially if it's intended to be functional. The corners rule it out a powder box, or whatever they're called. I'd hate to have that top flat surface hidden as it looks great.

David
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: ardy on December 18, 2011, 01:13:56 AM: Agree David it is a lovely top, it appears, from the photo, to be ground across the inner surface of the top and that may have been done to accept a lid. I think there is a good chance it was a powder bowl.

With a triangular top and a matching lid it would make this bowl very interesting (maybe unique) therefore worth a fair amount of dough. If it ever was such a thing.
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: langhaugh on December 18, 2011, 01:47:25 AM: I see what you mean, but is that ground glass or where the pink/opalescent section starts?

David
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: chriscooper on December 18, 2011, 12:30:38 PM: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-VSff5bepiqo/Tu3QGyn-o4I/AAAAAAAAU_E/PiAN2TMWXN8/s912/SDC10043.JPG
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-El1j4XILHJg/Tu3QCu50J_I/AAAAAAAAU-8/KjfuKLXtkxE/s640/SDC10042.JPG
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mknyLPeGKUw/Tu3P-aBwdgI/AAAAAAAAU-4/d70TLZN4oe0/s512/SDC10041.JPG

More photos in the Picasa link if it helps.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/MuranoPinkBowl#

Thanks for the help so far :sun:
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: ardy on December 18, 2011, 09:13:03 PM: Chris - in the second photo it looks as if the top is not flat, or most likely it is the camera at wide angle. If it is not flat then my theory of a powder bowl falls on that.

David - I think you are right, it might not be ground. The second photo Chris posted doesn't clarify it. Chris have you any ideas?
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: chriscooper on December 18, 2011, 09:33:43 PM: The Rim is flat and highly polished, almost looks like it's been sliced a bit like a fossil when they cut the stones in half and polish them up, my OH hates it says it looks like a set of false teeth ;D
Maybe it was sliced from the 'whole' into 2 pieces ?

Chris
Title: Re: Heavy pink bowl cased in clear crystal
Post by: ardy on December 18, 2011, 10:08:15 PM: My OH likes cheap glass, like those long necked perfume bottles with impossible dippers that sell on ebay for $5. So I have a continuous battle to keep them out of the house. Luckily she likes perfume more and I have found a couple of working Murano perfume bottles that she can put it into.

My theory still stands about a powder bowl but it is a fine piece of glass even as a normal bowl or ashtray.