Topic: Sommerso vase, red with green drips or pulls, Murano?

[glassobsessed]

I remember seeing bowls with a very similar design of 'drips or pulls' within the body, one might have been here on the GMB and the other was at the National Glass Fair a couple of years ago. As far as I can recall neither was identified for sure, I have not been able to find the one on here so maybe I was wrong about that.

Anyway, a heavy thick walled vase, about 16cm high. The only makers that I can find using partial layers of colour within a sommerso vase are Mandruzzato and Obal but none have quite as complex an internal shape as this one.

This signed Onesto vase has colours that seem to match: http://img1.jpegbay.com/gallery/003464466/2_f.jpg?1394700273646

If my vase turned out to be by Luigi Onesto I would be more than happy, any ideas?

John

[Pinkspoons]

Here's one of your vase's brethren:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,57277.0.html

[glassobsessed]

Excellent, thanks Nic.

With yours and Dirk's that is now three colour combos too.

[chopin-liszt]

And the base of your vase is bevelled as well as polished, John.
That's always a helpful... something, as in indicator of quality, (as if we hadn't realised that already).

[glassobsessed]

Anyone have Leslie Pina's book on Fratelli Toso?

On page 154 there is a bowl described as "red rim and green band with crown motif", the colours are strikingly similar to those in my vase but I think (it is not that obvious from the photos) that the green band is applied to the outside rather than within the glass - see the pair of bowls on top of page 155.

As has been mentioned before the odd mistake crops up in Pina's books but few books on glass can claim not to have a mis-attribution. Any thoughts?