Topic: Aventurine - English or Venetian

[user9318]

I have windows 8 and have no problem with rotating an image when needed. What photo program are you using?

[brucebanner]

Rotating an image is easy they do not load up here from my windows 8 version they revert back to original position, i will try the Web link provided or just keep using my old laptop the next time i post something, i will probably end up throwing the new lap top out the window anyway, the slide bars drive me crazy.

[Paul S.]

back to the glass then........

It may be relevant to comment that none of the Venetian revival pieces that Simon Cottle shows have this bright blue colourway with what looks like filigrana - so my thoughts would be that this one is not from the U.K.            Having said that, there is a bowl showing in the Bowey/Bagley link page from MHT that does have what looks like filigrana threading.      This bowl shape itself appears to be common, and the suggestion in the link is that the lion mask prunt is an indication of manufacture in Murano, nonetheless the conclusion in the link is that that bowl (not the op's) is attributed to Sowerby.

These bowls seem to come with both cherub and lion prunts.       But thoughts are that this colourway doesn't look particularly British Venetian revival.