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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: cristalclear on January 31, 2008, 11:28:04 PM
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Can anyone tell me anything about this piece? I think it is Murano? No chips, no damage.
What would be the estimate appraisal value?
Thanks.
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Interesting piece! A close-up of the remains of the label would be good!
But don't expect people here to give you a valuation. They don't usually like doing that.
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I would say probably. Label seems to be sort of ovoid with remnants of red, which is a good start for a Murano label. These sort of flattened spouty sommerso thingys are usually attributed to Falvio Poli, but I don't have anything to back that up. I do have a flattened sommerso vase with a label though.
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Possibly a Drioli liquor bottle... They made lots of different shapes and colors.
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What fun pieces - would the Drioli bottles be cork-stoppered or left open like carafes?
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I'm not sure you'd get a stopper in Cristal's thingy; the hole is oval and angled
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The layers look clean and the colors look very Seguso VA-like. I searched and found some similar vases. These vases were attributed to Flavio Poli for Seguso. There were differences, however. The vases I found had pulled rims that looped and attached to the sides. Like the rim, the handle of these vases were pulled, looped, and attached, rather than pierced as seems to be the case for the vase in this post.
Still... Looking at the layers and colors, I wouldn't be surprised if the vase in this post is Seguso, maybe Poli. To me, the vase looks carefully crafted and very pretty.
Anita
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Now there are several heavy glassworks with similar shape (with the "hole") blown by Silvano Signoretto, the brother of the more famous Pino Signoretto. So this is my first suggestion, but in this piece I "feel" also something not familiar with his works. May be that it looks a little thinner and less "sculptural".
Sincerely
Alex
www.artofvenice.com (http://www.artofvenice.com)
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Cristal's vase has a flattened form like this one
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Possibly a Drioli liquor bottle... They made lots of different shapes and colors.
Drioli was the liqueur maker though I think? I wonder who made these bottle for them.
p.s. I have had some very nice ceramic figure bottles used by Drioli, but have never found the maker for these either....
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Thanks for that Christine. I've never seen one of those vases/ewers with an import label before...in fact I've never seen one with any label before! ^-^ :D
PS Lynne, I've got a little pottery figurine, it's a kneeling figure of a black lady...which I think is for Drioli too.
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Hi Max, yes, the kneeling tribal lady is definitely Drioli, the other nice set I like is of jazz musicians - including a very plump singer!
Here is an interesting site (http://www.drioli.com/) featuring the various Drioli miniatures - they reckon that the glass was made for Drioli on Murano, and I would expect that to be right, looking at the colours of the little animals.
I think I may have found your lady on the Drioli site Max - is it this one?
(http://www.drioli.com/figural/black_girl_basket_front.jpg)
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Doh, it had never occurred to me it was a Hardy label :-[
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What fun pieces - would the Drioli bottles be cork-stoppered or left open like carafes?
Anne, most of the Driolis I have had (ceramic) had a little cork bung with either a plastic moulded top, the same as you would find in some commercial liqueur or sherry bottles, or just cork, with a paper and gilt printed seal over the top.
I tell you some of the part used ones are REALLY sticky.....!!!
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Anne, looking through this post, it seems to have two distinct threads - could you split out the Drioli please, so it doesn't detract from Cristalclear's vase?
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Good idea to separate the topics. Do the Murano Drioli bottles sell very well? (Don't believe the OP's piece is one, btw.)
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Luigi Onesto copied some Flavio Poli designs in the 1990/s some carried the Oggeti import label,could this be a possibility.