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Author Topic: Murano with a head profile?  (Read 998 times)

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Offline tropdevin

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Murano with a head profile?
« on: December 29, 2008, 09:13:41 AM »
This paperweight appears to have Murano canes, a central head silhouette of poor quality (maybe a tree?), and a label 'Bolighus' which I have never heard off.  Is it Murano, or what?

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Re: Murano with a head profile?
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2008, 11:59:42 AM »
Murano, the label is a danish furniture/interior design store.
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Re: Murano with a head profile?
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2008, 12:09:38 PM »
Hi Alexander

Thanks - if the label had said 'IKEA' I'd have known the answer!

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Re: Murano with a head profile?
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2008, 02:20:21 PM »
I think the central cane is a picture of a FISH rather than a head silhouette.

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Re: Murano with a head profile?
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2008, 06:41:36 PM »
That's a Seguso paperweight. And that is indeed a fish. I've seen butterfly and flower canes made similarly by them.
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