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Author Topic: Colourful weight with bubbles  (Read 1476 times)

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Offline bat20

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Colourful weight with bubbles
« on: August 24, 2014, 08:37:21 AM »
Hi all,this weight is about 3" ht with a flat polished base and feels heavy with clear glass,"bought this years ago in a lovely little antique fair in France...",i was told,but i'm wondering if it's not Italian originally,any thoughts many thanks.

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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #1 on: August 24, 2014, 03:02:37 PM »
A splendid piece. Looks to be Murano from the second half of the 20th century.
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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2014, 04:07:36 PM »
Oh great thanks Eric,there were the usual suspects on the table and to me this one just stood out. ;D

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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2014, 07:38:44 PM »
The "frothy bubbles" may be an indicator of 1970s period from Ferro & Lazzarini.
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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2014, 09:27:33 AM »
Thanks for the extra info everyone,i've been looking at this one alot trying to work out the making processes and how long the whole thing would take to put together ,seems like alot of work?

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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2014, 09:56:17 AM »
I think this looks very much like a Gino Seguso weight, he used that mass of bubbles the flowers emerge from in the series of weights he made called Flowers of Enchantment and the flowers are similar too
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Re: Colourful weight with bubbles
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2014, 10:56:27 AM »
I tell you what there's not alot in it between the two from the examples i've looked at,depending on the camera angles the Seguso ones look a bit flatter domed and wider based than the F&L weights with more chance of a bit of green and less tutti frutti type colour being used,the base on mine seems to look more like F&L's i've seen as well,but i really haven't seen enough of these types to tell by a long chalk.

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