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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: socsthecat on July 17, 2007, 12:21:03 PM

Title: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver foil
Post by: socsthecat on July 17, 2007, 12:21:03 PM: Hi. I recently purchased this glass cat at an estate auction. It is signed on the bottom but I can't make out what it says. It is mostly black with silvery flecks inside. There seems to be 3 different patterns to the silver fleck. Anyone know who might have made this?

Photos are at:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7917
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7920
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7918

Thanks so much for any help.
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver flecks
Post by: Anne on July 17, 2007, 06:46:56 PM: Hi and welcome to the board. Can you get a closeup of the signature in case someone may be able to recognise it? If your camera has a macro setting (the little flower icon usually) try that, or sometimes standing the piece on a scanner if you have one and scanning it will pick up the mark instead.
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver flecks
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 17, 2007, 07:09:27 PM: Looks a bit like something from FM Konstglas Ronneby, Sweden, to me, but... :-\ Ingela would know
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver flecks
Post by: Frank on July 18, 2007, 09:24:46 AM: The decoration is silver foil, at least one overlap is visible and the variations are just due to the shaping process. I would think it is most likely of American origin.

I would also appreciate large copies of the images for the Glass Zoo, might get it ID'd positively one day.
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver flecks
Post by: socsthecat on July 18, 2007, 02:28:55 PM: Hi everyone - thanks for your thoughts so far!

I added a scan of the signature. It seems to be written in 3 lines. I really can't read the first line at all. I'm pretty sure the second line starts off with "Seg" or "Sag" followed by 3 or 4 more letters. The 3rd line looks like it says "Curious" which I'm guessing is the title of the piece. The scan shows the signature better than any pictures I took, but it's still not very clear :(

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7936

Frank - larger photos of everything are available here:

http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/fatwil/?action=view&current=IMG_0192-1.jpg
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/fatwil/?action=view&current=IMG_0193-1.jpg
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/fatwil/?action=view&current=IMG_0194-1.jpg
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/fatwil/?action=view&current=CatSignature.jpg
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t213/fatwil/?action=view&current=CatBottomCropped.jpg

Thanks again!
Title: It's Probably Seguso Murano
Post by: socsthecat on July 18, 2007, 03:46:43 PM: I'm now pretty sure it's Murano designed by Seguso. Someone over on a Murano forum just referred me to this link. Mine is exactly the same shape and the signatures match.

http://www.trocadero.com/mt1007/items/654218/item654218.html

Thanks everyone!
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver foil
Post by: Frank on July 18, 2007, 04:21:36 PM: Can anyone comment on the use of silver foil in this threads examples - was this the same series as the Trocadero example?
Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver foil
Post by: saorsa on July 19, 2007, 08:24:10 PM: Hi there i have just sold a labelled murano piece Complete with sticker , that has the silver foil
if it helps the ebay number was 290137367939

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Title: Re: Anyone recognize this Cat? Black glass with silver foil
Post by: Frank on July 19, 2007, 09:02:34 PM: Lots of Murano makers used silver foil but it is specifically the Seguso Phantasy range I was wondering about.