Topic: Could this be a Murano fish

[Margi]

Here is a very heavy solid fish not a vase.  My first instinct was Murano but how wrong I am at times.  My first question is it Murano (looks quite a new piece) and secondly if so was it made by a specific artist or just general tourist piece?  If not who could it be - please (with hands in the prayer position) not Chinese I hope.

Cobalt blue with yellow underside with red pattern thickly cased in clear.  The base is highly polished and flat.

As always. Margi

[Margi]

Forgot to add measurements 26cm wide x just short of 18cm to highest point.

[Baked_Beans]

From a fish point of view it looks like a stylized Chinese carp with shell-like fins...but from a glass perspective I have no idea ! Nice fish  :mrgreen: !

[Margi]

Thanks for your thoughts.  I have another fish but a vase which was id'd by I believe Christine as being Chinese.  That now looks rather pathetic against this one and if this new one is Chinese I am rather impressed and will keep  it anyway 

[TxSilver]

I don't think it is Chinese. I think Baked Beans was just talking about the species. It looks like it could be Murano to me. I just don't know by who. JI Co (Jordan Import Co) imported fish that had decoration like this. It may be one of their very nice ones. It is just a guess.

[Margi]

Thanks Anita very much appreciate your thoughts

[rocco]

Glad I found this thread, and that Anita agreed that this nice fishy was probably from Murano. Mine is 19 cm high.
I guess a maker will be tough to attribute -- seem to be tourist pieces...

Mine has a hand-written sticker (from a former owner?) to the base, just saying "old"

Michael