Topic: Could I really be so lucky? A Livio Seguso fish?

[dirk.]

Hi Anita and tam tam,

there are several price lists on the CD, which comes with the book. The one from 1978 gives a long list
of glass sculptures / animals; only the first six of this list still appear in the 1981 list:

1981 - a penguin, a pair of birds (we´ve had them in a thread some time ago), a striped fish (smoke with white),
   a seagull, a bull, another fish (like Anik´s)

1978 also - a sailing boat, an elephant, a dove, another bull, an owl, a hen, a turtle, a cat, an antilope, a seal,
   a polar bear (like Anik´s), two different sparrows and a hawfinch.

This list however isn´t comprehensive and it doesn´t attribute the animals to a specific designer. The book shows
two of the animals attributed to Helmut Schäffenacker: the owl and one of the elephants. I´m quite confident from
the style and grade of abstraction, that at least one of the bulls is one of his designs, too. And the list doesn´t
show some of Livio Seguso´s work like the mother and child sculpture. Since Livio Seguso executed some of
Schäffenacker´s designs I´m not sure how they are signed either... So - like almost always with glass there´s
still enough room for uncertainty and need for further research left... 

[rocco]

Found me one, too
Quite chunky weighing over 2 kg at 17 cm height.
Unusual colourway of Neodymium pink and amber instead of blue.

It is not signed, but as the size fits with the Gralglas price list, I am quite positive it is rather German than Murano production...

Michael

[TxSilver]

There is a new Livio Seguso for Gralglas section at the Murano Zoo -- https://sites.google.com/site/muranozoo/livio-seguso-animals-for-gralglas-of-germany. Michael, your fish looks like the one on the second page -- same colors and shape. Horst told me there was a fish that was larger than the one he showed. Yours might be the larger version. I don't know what the dimensions of the larger fish are.

[rocco]

Thank you very much, Anita!

The Gralglas price list from 1978 gives 3 sizes for this pattern (Nr. BS 77): 13, 17 and 22 cm.
So mine seems to be the middle size version.

If you like to add the picture to your zoo please feel free to do so

Michael

[TxSilver]

Thanks, Michael. It is so similar to the other one that it would just be redundant. I'll wait until your next zoo entry.

[rocco]

That's true... So let us wait for the next zoo inhabitant

Being a collector not too much into glass animals, I have become quite a regular contributor to your zoo

Michael

[Anik R]

Beautiful fish, Michael!  I deeply regret selling mine last year. 

[rocco]

Thank you Anik, he is very nice (and I like the odd colour combo).
I hope that the money you got for your fish was invested in an even nicer piece of glass

Michael