Topic: opalina fiorentina - snowflake pattern but on a transparent glass vase

[flying free]

hmm, I was sure the list was somewhere here but can only find Murano glass list at the moment.
I did find this link though - however Stelvia on this link does not have the full stops between each letter

http://www.leonet.it/firms/centrovetro/stelvia2.html

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[Ivo]

http://www.centrovetro.it/  is the consortium - but I doubt if you can find information on early production from any of the members. Stelvia is now a highly automated tableware producer with little attention for a nostalgic past.

[Cathy B]

Or perhaps it translates roughly to something like 'opaline glass from Florence'?

[Ivo]

Think of Brussels sprouts...

[chopin-liszt]

 

[Cathy B]

Oh gord - Ivo, I totally missed your reply and was answering Wayne's post suggesting Opalina Fiorentina was a brand name. Which was why my reply above made absolutely no sense.

Hi, I think Stelvia is the manufacturer name, and Opalina Fiorentina is some sort of brand name, see this label which has both names (sorry I don't have a larger pic):

[Wayne]

This will probably only confuse matters further, but here is the vase which bears the label:



There is no white glass anywhere on the vase, although the blue glass does have a certain milkyness to it.

[Cathy B]

Isn't that what's called opalina?

[Wayne]

Oh is it?  Lol that would explain it then.  For some reason I thought it had to involve white glass, sorry, my mistake.  Looks like it was just me who was confused!  :spls:

[flying free]

No I was confused as well -
'Opalina (the Florentine type) is a transparent colour cased over a semi transparent milk glass.'
   
 
I took Ivo's comment to mean it was a colour cased over white (I thought semi transparent milk glass was white) but perhaps semi transparent milk glass just means translucent glass of any colour?

I would have called your vase opaline Wayne. Perhaps, given it is Italian, they call opaline opalina?  But I can't see that it is cased?  So I am also confused.
I thought a transparent colour cased over a semi transparent milk glass was opalino?


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