Topic: English? Italian> Tazza help please.

[brucebanner]

This sounds like lead crystal on the base and the top section, has a Victorian staple repair in the stem in three places and is in a poor condition with breaks and chips to the swans and flowers, glows green clear glass wise under UV light.
I collect broken repaired glass i love it. I have been through two murano books and there is nothing similar, i'm wondering who made this and a rough age. There is a rough pontil in the base and upper bowl.

It's 81/4 inches across the rim, 6 inches in height and 4 1/4 inches across the base.

[Greg.]

Nice item Chris, Salviati may be worth looking into.

[brucebanner]

Hello Greg this looks and feels like none of the Salviati i have, i'm wondering if any of the British glass companies copied this. It sounds like Georgian lead crystal.

[glassobsessed]

I saw this on ebay and almost bid, I have a few bits here that are not perfect. I could not have afforded them otherwise.... Salviati for sure though I would not like to guess as to who actually made it.

There is a very similar "footed bowl with swans", shown in Exquisite Glass Ornaments The nineteenth century Murano glass revival in the de Boos-smith collection -  item 24 page 10. There are minor variations between the two but  I am confident that yours is from Murano and late 19th century. Your swans look like girasol or opalescent glass. Will try and add some photos of my bits later.

John

[glassobsessed]

Much later, my battered bits.

The girasol jug is missing flowers, leaves plus the serpents head and tail, 24cm tall. The covered goblet was coated in glue and in two pieces when I bought it, 30cm tall.

The vase has another example of a swan.

[brucebanner]

The jug is beautiful, what kind of age John do you think the jug is?.

[brucebanner]

I've been looking through the Murano Island of glass book, i just can not believe the glass in that book dating from the 16th and 17th century is what it is with no damage, 300 years and in perfect condition.

[glassobsessed]

Many in museums I suspect...

The very same jug but in ruby over lattimo (and without the spiral rib) is shown on page 15 of the book I mentioned earlier, so in terms of date late 1800s, perhaps 1880 - 1900.