Topic: Multi-coloured vase / bowl - Avem tutti-frutti? Chinese?

[rachnathanking]

Please help identify this beautiful piece of glass.

It measures 2.75" high and 2.25" wide. It is quite heavy. It weighs 276g.

Thanks!

[Ivo]

With a bottom finish like that it has to be Chinese. The colours are pointing in that direction as well.

[glassobsessed]

I would disagree. It looks very much like 1950s or 60s Murano, possibly AVEM, often described as Tutti Frutti. Both the shape and unpolished base are not unusual for these little vases.

John

[Ivo]

the colours are easily checked on google images I think.

[Paul S.]

not my area but  ...........   comparing with some of the pix in Leslie Pina's 'Fifties Glass'  -  it does appear that the pink and blue are too bright  -  but aside from that the extreme coarseness of the base finish would be what you'd expect on a Chinese piece.

[glassobsessed]

The colours are bright but I suspect that is because they are on a white background, that white background is unusual - the first I remember seeing anyway. The backgrounds are often red or green, occasionally blue. The first of the following, the vase with a green background also had an unpolished base - this is not unusual for these items.

the extreme coarseness of the base finish would be what you'd expect on a Chinese piece.

It is one clue amongst many, many mass produced Chinese items have polished bases, many items of studio glass have rough bases. On it's own it tells you little.

[rocco]

I would agree with John that it is a Murano "Tutti Frutti" piece, probably by AVeM.
The base finish is quite unusual for Murano glass, but all of these small vases / toothpick holders have it.

A >> google search shows several similar ones.

I think the colours do stand out more due to the white inner lining.
I have an ashtray with an unusual ivory white casing >> Link. This one does have a polished base, though.

The Chinese Tutti Frutti pieces I have seen so far never had any zanfirico, only bits of canes and murrine...

edit: sorry, cross posting

Michael

[Ohio]

I have a TF bowl to compare. Only reservation I have is the white base & thats only due to having been informed years ago by a knowledgable Murano collector that TF is found solely on either the dark red or black base although that was probably a decade ago so that may have changed.

[obscurities]

I agree with Ivo. I think it is of Chinese origins. They are knocking these off.

Craig

[glassobsessed]

Can you point to some examples Craig? I have yet to see any Chinese wares quite like this and would appreciate being better informed.