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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: josordoni on August 09, 2006, 08:51:26 AM
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Any ideas?
Flower Paperweight (http://www.clarkagency.co.uk/flower%20paperweight.htm)
Mod: Pics gone, but example below
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Probably Murano. Pre-WWII.
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Possibly modern Bohemian.
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Thanks you two - can you say what the identifying bits are as you are both so different in time and place, and then I can try to match them up further with the weight itself.
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I think the flat base is one of the highlights to my calling it Murano. This is a hallmark of Venetian paperweights. Also, the "flower pot," which is the greenish glob of glass is also of the Murano style.
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Well, yes, I would always have thought very flat base = Murano too.
Until I got a reply on my millefiori paperweight, that turned out to be an Ysart...
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6505.0.html
you should see the flat base on that one...... :lol:
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Problematically, the flat base & flower pot characteristics apply to Murano, pre WWII Bohemian, and modern Bohemian as well. I chose Modern Bohemian because of the style & workmanship details of the flowers.
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Well, at least they are not Chinese.
Not,you understand, that there is anything WRONG with Chinese, but I do have rather a lot of them....
:lol:
I'll keep on hoping someone will recognise the piece and give a definite attribution.
thanks,
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From the many examples shown in Peter Von Brackel's book, the clear-stem "flowers in pot" design have been a regular feature of Bohemian / Czechoslovakian work of the 1900-1930s period.
The stem is simply an elongated bubble made with a thin (or not so thin?) tool thrust down between the centre of the petals.
I personally think the example shown here is much better than the few actual ones I've seen and also a lot better than many of the examples shown in the Von Brackel book, even the mutli-faceted ones.
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The character & style of the flowers as well as the leaves tell me Bohemian, modern...Say 1980s to the present.
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I have a weight like that except the three flowers are different colors. One is cobalt, one is an opaque rusty red and the last is white. Alas the poor thing has a substantial bullseye and the botton is badly scratched.
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Do you know if yours was old Bohemian or modern?
I trust Kev, but appreciate that it can be difficult without actually holding the weight.
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I have no idea if mine is Bohemian or what not. I saw it in the antique district in Pomona Ca for $15. It didn't look like the Chinese or Italian weights I had. Even with the bullseye, I thought it was unusual and so bought it.
I apologise for the picture quality.
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l203/glasstrufflehunter/Flowerpotweight1.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l203/glasstrufflehunter/flowerpotweight2.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l203/glasstrufflehunter/flowerpotweight3.jpg)
(http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l203/glasstrufflehunter/Flowerpotweight4.jpg)
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Definitely looks like mine's long lost brother, the flower petal shape is identical.
So we shall both have to wonder...
:lol:
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Yours is much nicer. Judging from the size of the bullseye on mine I think someone dropped it on the concrete.
Mine has about the same amount of wear on the bottom.
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Terrible things bullseyes...
I had viewed a load of lovely paperweights at auction recently, and one box had around 20 Streathearn and Perthshire millefioris plus some signed weights. Lovely .
So when I got to the auction to bid, I found that the porter had accidentally dropped the entire box. About three quarters had deep dings and bullseyes...
so sad, what a waste!
:cry: :cry:
and I missed out on the really nice ones anyway, because I was too timid to go high enough... :roll:
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I have one almost identical to this, but mine has a bullseye right on the top :( where my cats knocked another paperweight off a shelf and it landed right on top of it :x :evil:
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I can believe someone would put so many nice weights all together in a box like that. yeesh.
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I can believe someone would put so many nice weights all together in a box like that. yeesh.
Once again, it seems auction houses really don't understand about paperweights! Those of us who do would never put paperweights anywhere touching each other! :shock:
(Or on a shelf above other paperweights! :oops: :( )
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This is going to make you sick:
I did the 'on a shelf above another paperweight' once. The shelf freakishly warped and an inexpensive Glass Eye studios weight fell and hit my Daniel Salazar golden rose weight. The resulting bullseye is very small. I hope to get it ground out someday. *snif* And I was always so careful!
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an inexpensive Glass Eye studios weight fell and hit my Daniel Salazar golden rose weight.
:x :x :x :cry:
You have my deepest sympathy! :(
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I had viewed a load of lovely paperweights at auction recently, and one box had around 20 Streathearn and Perthshire millefioris plus some signed weights. Lovely. So when I got to the auction to bid, I found that the porter had accidentally dropped the entire box. About three quarters had deep dings and bullseyes.
That really hurts!!! What'd the guy expect them to do, bounce?
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I had viewed a load of lovely paperweights at auction recently, and one box had around 20 Streathearn and Perthshire millefioris plus some signed weights. Lovely. So when I got to the auction to bid, I found that the porter had accidentally dropped the entire box. About three quarters had deep dings and bullseyes.
That really hurts!!! What'd the guy expect them to do, bounce?
I had said when I went to view that there were too many weights in each box, and the porter at the counter (not the one who dropped them!) had said that he would try to sort them into bigger boxes. But he obviously didn't have time or boxes available as they were all jumbled up in the same boxes at the auction proper. Even the dropped box went for nearly £200... too rich for me.
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You should have taken matters into your own hands. :wink: The entire episode just boggles the mind. So sad. Just imagining it hurts.