Topic: Oval pink and white glass bowl with gold ...Seguso perhaps ?

[Baked_Beans]

Hope I've got the description right . Could this be by Seguso perhaps. 17cm's in length. Thanks for having a look.

[glassobsessed]

Not sure your bowl would be described as alabastro, it is usually opaque. Here are some examples from Seguso.

John

[TxSilver]

You're right. The bowl is a cased lattimo. It's a nice one, but I don't know who made it.

[ardy]

HI it could be Archimede Seguso. The trails in the gold/copper are often on his pieces but not unique. Here is a lamp of mine that has some similarities,

[Baked_Beans]

Thanks very much for your comments . It certainly is cased in clear glass ...so cased lattimo (opaque white glass) it is  Thanks very much for clarifying that point , it's something that has always confused me  (but not any more  )  I really think it's gold and not copper as it has a nice golden lustre which    doesn't really show in the photos.  Great lamp Ardy ! Ta, Mike.

[TxSilver]

One other thing worth mentioning. Polveri is ground up colored glass. The gold wouldn't be considered polveri.

[Lustrousstone]

It's gold foil, not dust. It's very, very thin and breaks up with the heat and with blowing.

[TxSilver]

I've wondered if that is always true, Christine. I haven't seen all the techniques. Some things it's easy to see that it was foil. Other things look more dusted, like they were rolled in a dust, instead of on a foil. I've wondered about that.

[Baked_Beans]

Ohhh, thanks very much indeed for that !!
Yes, I can see it is indeed gold foil that is broken up , I thought it came under the definition of 'polveri'...thanks TxSilver . Oppps, this is what happens when researching glass  on-line and you are (one is) fed with miss-information , to a degree !

Perhaps the title of this thread should be edited to avoid confusion  ....sorry. I should have entitled it ' Oval pink and white glass bowl with gold '    !

It's a very nice , perfectly formed ,  bowl but I'd be happy with just Murano if it's not possible to get an ID !  I thought the pink colour (and the combination with white) looked ' Sequsoesq ' !

Post script.....yes I have seen that too TxSilver .

[Lustrousstone]

Dust would use too much gold I think. Leaf is extremely fine and makes a little go a long way. I suspect the way it breaks up depends on the leaf itself and the way it is handled