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Flying chickens - any ideas on maker?

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Simone:
Frank, is the flying chickens a graal vase?  :?:  :?

Frank:
No. In view of the canes on the back it could be lampwork. Another possibility is that the design was painted on with the new glass paints - been a few years since I saw any of that... poor mans graal and the colours tend to be gaudy.

With multi-coloured graal, each colour is a complete separate casing and the design is painstakingly sandblasted down one colour at a time, with new masks painted on for each colour. Were the Chinese to do such a thing it would probably cost around a hundred pounds despite the low salarys!

Simone:
Frank, with the chickens, each bit is on another layer of glass, at least, that's what it looks like. The millefiori look to be on the same layer of glass as the chickens though.

Frank:
That is what the paint looks like too. I think it is a combination of techniques but not graal which gives softer edges and the colours blend into each other to a certain extent.

Meanwhile...


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