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Title: Ruffled top bowl - Murano or Bohemia?
Post by: Littleblackhen on March 31, 2008, 04:26:00 PM
This is an almost tortoise shell effect in the glass, with one or two splotches of colour.  Is it Murano?

Thanks
Janet
Title: Re: Ruffled top bowl - Murano?
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 31, 2008, 07:43:12 PM
More likely Bohemian I think
Title: Re: Ruffled top bowl - Murano or Bohemia?
Post by: Littleblackhen on April 01, 2008, 11:42:25 AM
Thanks for your reply :)

I have been looking at Bohemian glass and haven't found anything very similar.  Did you have a particular maker in mind?

Kralik tango glass has something of the same feel, but I didn't see anything the same shape or colours.

This one does have a similar colour and shape, but it still isn't the same, it is cased in clear glass and mine isn't.

http://www.rgm-world.de/Grosse-Schale-Boehmen-um-1900.49+B6YmFja1BJRD00OSZMPTEmcHJvZHVjdElEPTIwNiZwaWRfcHJvZHVjdD00OSZkZXRhaWw9.0.html

Does anyone have any further ideas please?

Thanks

Janet
Title: Re: Ruffled top bowl - Murano or Bohemia?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 01, 2008, 11:53:00 AM
Bohemian glass is a minefield, there were dozens of companies and home workers and few of them still documented (if ever). Murano tends to be applied to anything multi-coloured but in reality I don't think its often very accurate.
Title: Re: Ruffled top bowl - Murano or Bohemia?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 02, 2008, 07:22:45 PM
I have just seen a documented (Truitt & Truitt, Bohemian Glass 1880-1914) Harrach vase in a marbly glass with very similar colours to your bowl, which inclines me even more toward Bohemia
Title: Re: Ruffled top bowl - Murano or Bohemia?
Post by: Galle on April 02, 2008, 08:03:08 PM
I think Czech also - the book that Lustrousstone mentioned does indeed have several similar examples, as does Truitt volume II - Collectible Bohemian Glass 1915-1945.