Topic: Millefiori Vase

[a.mar.illo]

Millefiori double handled vase with pontil scar, any thoughts on this piece?
The murrines are not everywhere perfectly close together, I guess we can exclude Fratelli Toso then,
it also has a few bubbles in the clear glass base, but judging from the lot in which I found it ( some art déco porcellain and stuff until the sixties maybe...) we can also exclude "contemporary", but what is it then?

[a.mar.illo]

This vase KevinH posted a while ago seems to be very similar to mine, the murrines and also the manner they are gathered: http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-15134
What do you think? Btw: I didn´t use flash in my pics, so my colors might seem darker than the one KevinH posted, I still think they are pretty much the same.

Sven

[KevinH]

Hi Sven,

Yes, the murrine are identical to those in my vase.  And the form of the handles are the same too.

See the latest posts to the following messages, where there is now good evidence in favour of Livio Campanella as the source (but perhaps using Leffetre murrine).

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,5108.msg42017.html#msg42017
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,29358.msg158802.html#msg158802
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,40255.msg222836.html#msg222836

[a.mar.illo]

Thanks Kevin,
yes sir, Livio Campanella is our guy, founded in 1972, mine should be from their beginnings, as I said it came out a lot of antiques until the 60s, well 70s then as I stand corrected:)
I found the Murr21, and while I was there I could also ID the other Millefiori vase I own which obviously uses Murr2 on the list http://liviocampanella.com/content/view/13/33/lang,en/
thanks so much, now I will put them together in my glass cabinet since they are practically close relatives:)

cheers,
Sven

[a.mar.illo]

Here´s yours again, Kevin, in a glass shop in Amsterdam, they gave it the same price as their Carlo Moretti vases
http://www.decolibri.nl/EN/details/19/8/1/680/Millefiori%20vase%2CMurano.

But:
Looks like Cenedese also used these or very similar murrines, design-and-arts usually know where their stuff comes from: http://www.design-and-arts.com/produkt.php?lang=eng&id_produkt=436&id_kategorie_unter_kategorie=90&id_kategorie=24&bild=info

[KevinH]

It is always a problem when various makers use murrine (or canes) from a single source. And it is a problem much wider than just Murano these days as lots of makers around the world use (or have used) the modern Moretti / Effetre canes.

If the Design & Arts vase truly is Cenedese, then maybe Pinkspoons' pice is also Cenedese. Both those examples have a "more controlled" and "more widely spaced" use of the murrine.

What we really need is info from all the catalogues of all the makers who have used the MNoretti / Effetre murrine - or have made their own, seemingly identical, murrine.