Topic: Ysart style Murano

[tropdevin]

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Which garlanded flower came first...the chicken or the egg? Regardless, garlanded flowers appear first as antique French weights....but it is interesting to see a Murano one.

Anyone seen a Murano one before?  Any idea when they were made?

Alan

[glasstrufflehunter]

The canes and shape look like Seguso to me. Can't help you with age tho. I would make a guess of maybe 50s or 60s.

I have two Seguso 'garlanded flower' weights. The garland is a single row of cane clusters as opposed to the two in that weight and the flower in the center is a large murrine.

The flower in that weight does not look like lampwork. It looks like it might be a transfer with the flower having been hand painted on paper and inserted in the weight.