Topic: Heavy - I just don't know - vase

[Mr. Turnip]

Hmm, well. Extensive research by my tenacious partner (she's a bit OCD-ish) has revealed two vases of similar type on ebay.com. - ebay item No. 171423450767 and 280574560208. One of them has the same type of swirls in the glass. Both listed as Murano.

Also found similar one on UK ebay with the 'vetro eseguito secondo la tecnica dei maestri Murano made in Italy' sticker (glass made according to the technique of the masters of Murano) mentioned elsewhere on GMB - 'Can I believe these labels?' post. I think the person selling one of these (ebay UK. No. 191284361504) thinks 'Vetro Eseguito' is the maker! So looking like they're Chinese then - it would be nice to know precisely where they come from and who makes them!

[Lustrousstone]

Made in Italy is probably correct then, just not made in Murano

[Mr. Turnip]

Well I'm not too sure myself whether that means the vase is made in Italy or just the sticker?

[Frank]

It could be Chinese but in a better class than the two you pointed to on eBay, both of which are much more simply made. Yours required a lot more skill. I would still keep looking at Italy too though.

[Mr. Turnip]

I will continue to look as I still don't have a definitive answer. To assist anyone who may wish to refer to this post in the future am I allowed to take sections of the photos of other peoples ebay items, and put them on this post or are there copyright/legal problems with this? It's so annoying when links (or ebay ref. numbers) are looked at in the future and have disappeared!

[chopin-liszt]

Sorry, absolutely not.
Unless you have specific permission from the owner of the photographs to use them.
You could always write to them to ask for copies of their pics, for research porpoises.

[nigel benson]

Hi,

I tripped up over this tonight and it reminded me of this thread - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dale-Tiffany-Lesley-Art-Glass-Vase-AV10768-/371052849611?pt=Vases&hash=item56647929cb

Just wondered whether it confuses the issue because Dale Tiffany don't appear to be the makers - however if you look at the pages of glass under that name on eBay it looks very Chinese in origin.

As a digression this has probably come up before in other threads, but I haven't always been looking in, so I'll add it here in case it stirs regular's grey cells - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DALE-TIFFANY-Art-GLASS-VASE-Aqua-Royal-Blue-AMPHORA-Gold-Adventurine-FAVRILE-/261369125700?pt=Vases&hash=item3cdad05b44

Nigel

[KevinH]

Yes, we have earlier threads on "Dale Tiffany" wares.

The Dale Tiffany web pages said or suggested (and maybe still say or suggest) that they have their own factory in China, or that a factory in China makes their wares to order. It always seems difficult to get the exact info on such things!

[nigel benson]

Thanks for the reply Kevin, nice to know my gut reaction was going in the right direction about the makers 

[Fuhrman Glass]

Dale Tiffany sources glass from many different sources and has runs done by different factories. I have a friend who has made 1000's of lighting shades for them over the years and used on their Tiffany style lamps.