There have been some forged Barovier & Toso vases turning up on eBay recently. The vases are crudely signed in the middle of the base over what would be the pontil area if the vase were blown. I don't have any forged glass around, so I thought it would be good to talk about what the real signatures would look like. Horochar has an excellent example of a real signature in his BT thread of last week. I've included another from a reticello vase below. This type of signature was done in the 1970s-early 1980s. Later signatures, according to Heiremans in his book Murano Glass, Themes and Variations, looked the same, but were thicker. IME, the signatures are not found in the center, but are displaced toward the edge of the base. This is even if it is over decoration, as can be seen in the reticello vase. Horochar, if you are reading, where is the signature on your vase located? Has anyone seen a ligitimate signature in the middle of the base?
Anyway... I reported a couple of forgeries to eBay, but don't know how that will go. Just thought I would drop a word to be on the lookout for them. A couple of the vases sold were Crate & Barrel vases that go for $10-20. The one I saw today looked like it was of a similar form as the Crate & Barrel vases, though I couldn't be sure what it was. I just knew it wasn't a BT.
Topic: Valid Barovier-Toso Signatures (Read 2336 times)
