Topic: Large (2ft) Horseshead can you help? Murano?

[chriscooper]

Licio , another Zanetti?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Murano-transparent-Crystal-horse-head-signed-Zanetti-/150536805996?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item230cb15e6c

Oops sorry Michelle you have already discounted him

Chris :sun:

[rosieposie]

This is a lovely horses head, and there is enough signature that we should be able to identify it.  

Please can you try rubbing talcum powder into the signature and taking another picture without the flash on the right hand side, as this distracts from the end of the signature........thanks.

[flying free]

yes, Rosie I agree, I've been searching contemporary Murano makers but with no luck so far (well I did find one I thought could be the same maker but the sig didn't add up irritatingly).
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[Murfin]

Will do folks. Thanks.

[TxSilver]

The first word really looks like Germany to me. I can't make out the bottom at all. Perhaps the horse is German. It might still have been designed by someone in Murano, because several people in Murano designed and made glass for the German companies. Germany has a lot of talented glass artists, though, so it may have been designed by people there.

Beautiful horse wherever it was made.

[TxSilver]

I was thinking about the horse head and thought I would put an idea out there. Do you think the first line might be Ermanno, with what looks like a G actually being a distorted E? If it is Ermanno, there is only one person I can think of who would have made the horse -- Ermanno Nason. His work is signed in different ways from the little I've seen. If I remember correctly, some of his things are signed Ermanno, other things E. Nason, and still others with his full name. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the signatures.

I am probably reaching, but thought I would mention it as a maybe. He designed and made a lot of horses in his long career. Your horse would fit in with the type of work he did in his later career.

[rosieposie]

Might it be worth asking Dean if he would pop in and have a look at this beautiful horse head and signature for you murfin.....he has just left a reply to this link:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=42319.new;topicseen#new

He might not mind you asking him as he has an email address next to his name.

[Ivo]

Germano whatever-his-name-is used to have an outlet in the next street, I always wondered how many horse heads you can shift? I must have one of his leaflets somewhere, but cannot find it. No idea what his name was - not Zanetti, not quite Locatelli but something very much like it....

[Murfin]

Hello. Did the talcum powder and it's still no clearer.Thanks for the suggestion!

[Murfin]

Would like to know more about "Germano whatever his name is if possible". Can't find anything useful on google.