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Lampwork lattice carousel / Merry-go-round - Unicorns?

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Chris Harrison:
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5289
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-5288

I found this in the bottom of an auction box.  Discounted it as a piece of tat, then realised it was handmade and someone had put a lot of work into it. 

Plain glass thread lattice base and canopy, with with gilded highlights. The animals are a little bit weird.  I think they're perhaps unicorns...

It's approx 2.5" tall.

Sorry for the lousy photo. I need a new camera.  So I scanned it, too, to show the detail.

Can anyone tell me anything about it?

Thanks,
Chris

catshome:
Hi Chris,

Not sure if it will help, but I have something similar - a Gondolier and canopied Gondola.......

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10086/smallerDSCN0778.jpg

I suspect mine is a tourist souvenir - maybe Venice.  My feeling is that they are very modern.  I also have a vague idea that (I'm really sorry) Argos did a small range of glass lampwork ornaments a few years ago - I seem to recall a bird in a cage with some gold detailing.

Anyway, we might both get a nice surprise.  If I'm wrong can I blame the extra strong painkillers I'm taking as I've put my back out (again!).

Cat

Frank:
Still learning on this stuff, I am sure that the lustring/gilding will give an indication about its origins - at least in time if not place.... one day.

Connie:
I remember as a kid that every large amusement park in the States that we visited had a lampworker making these type of souvenirs.  I am fairly certain that the Disney theme parks still have them.

Cathy B:
Connie's right, there were probably a lot of people making these things. The first piece of glass I ever bought was a similar lampworked bell made by a bloke with a blow torch and a bunch of glass rods at the Blessing of the Fleet ceremony at Ulladulla, NSW, in 1977. It lasted about 20 minutes before it broke into about a million pieces and I spent several hours trying to glue all the lacy bits back together. (I was only a kid!)

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