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alabastro or opaline? and could it be a Seguso piece please? bowl pink & white

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KevinH:
Yep! That's the link. :hiclp: And yes, looks like a generic label.

TxSilver:
I looked a little into the G Hardy label on another group. If my information is correct, it is a UK company that imported Murano glass, I believe in the 1960s. I don't know which companies they imported. Many of the pieces look like Seguso things to me. I saw the Cenedese piece in the label library, but didn't know if the vase also had a Cenedese label. G Hardy did seem to import good glass -- no upper shelf things that I've seen, but nice things nonetheless.

langhaugh:
The piece looks more like the opaline of Fratelli Toso to me than Cenedese, whose opalescent layer is much thinner.  The basket below is is Fratelli Toso and the little bowl is Cenedese. The difficulty with identifying these pieces from photographs is that opalescence is difficult to capture in a photograph.

David

Lustrousstone:
As an aside, G Hardy also imported Swedish glass to the UK, but at least they had the decency to say where the glass came from on their labels, unlike other importers!

flying free:
Thanks all for your help :) very much appreciated.
  David, thanks for the great shots!   I think it looks more like your Fratelli Toso piece I agree,  however to be honest I can't see that the main casing is opalescent on my bowl only the rim trail is.  In addition it doesn't really look like the few Seguso bowls I've managed to find either.

So - I've had another closer look at the bowl.
 I 'think' it is off white/white opaline cased over rose pink opaline.  The opaline off-white casing is quite thick and becomes thinner and thinner at about 8mm from the rim edge where it nearly disappears completely.  This means the rose pink appears through from the inside showing on the outside as a strip.  Then a couple of millimetres up towards the rim from that, a white opalescent trail has been put round the rim of the bowl .  This 'trail' definitely does appear to be opalescent and under light it shines bright orange.  So this, combined with the pink showing through as a thin strip makes the kind of stripe effect at the rim.  But that is the only opalescent bit I can see.  The rest seems to be plain opaline.
I'm going to keep looking and come back if I find anything labelled :X:

thanks again
m

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