Topic: Rather fab bowl, cobalt and black

[Gill]

Promised myself I wouldn't buy anything else this week but this one wouldn't let me out of the charity shop without it.  Black outer layer is actually deepest purple, there is a layer of white between the black and the blue.  22 cms width, 7 cms high, very heavy, almost 2kgs.  I do have some ideas myself but as I'm so often wrong I'll wait to see if anyone has anything to say about it. Quite old jusding by surface wear.  Cheers, Gill

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[TxSilver]

The style of the bowl is Murano. The base isn't polished to a gloss, though, so I suspect it may be from elsewhere. The bases of Murano bowls I have seen are polished smooth. The dark purple is called black amethyst. It is a nice bowl, but I don't know the origin. A couple of the Murano-style bowls I have had that had frosty bases were Czech and Polish. Chinese pieces also have these types of bases, but your bowl doesn't look Chinese to me.

[Gill]

Thankyou Anita for your very useful reply, re. Murano bases, one of those things you don't realise you know until it's spelled out for you, now you've said it I realise that of course, every piece of murano I've ever had like this has had a polished base.Must admit I was thinking along Murano lines.  Also didn't know the name for the colour.  I think wherever it's from it's a fairly nifty piece of work.  Bet Ivo , or another clever person knows...... Thanks again, cheers, Gill