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Title: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: jidoba on April 06, 2008, 01:55:59 AM

Hi! No more Tour D'Argent ducks here, but I found this vase that I think is Murano. It's 9" tall and has no markings or sticker. I now I have seen it before online but darned if I can find it again! Any help is much appreciated!

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 06, 2008, 09:55:22 AM

Can we have a photo against white and of the base. The colours (shades) seem a little odd for Murano

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: jidoba on April 06, 2008, 03:14:05 PM

I am a bad glassie, should have included the bottom shot in the first post.
Here is the bottom;
taken with flash;
taken in sunlight.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 06, 2008, 04:32:15 PM

Probably Murano, but couldn't say who. The yellow looked olive green before

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: jidoba on April 06, 2008, 08:54:50 PM

Thanks! I found some identical shapes on the fossilfly home page, being imported currently. So maybe not as old as I first thought. Thanks for the help!

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: Andy on April 06, 2008, 09:58:27 PM

Hi Karla,
its quite a common shape, and as you say still made in Murano today, also this type of vase has/is
been made in Bohemia, Holland, Scandinavia etc.
I think the beveled edge to the base can often mean Bohemian/Czech. That would be my guess,
wherever, its an attractive vase :D

Regards Andy

ps ive also seen practically identical by Flavio Poli for seguso, without a label or signature, its
not going to be easy to get it 100%

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: jidoba on April 07, 2008, 02:05:16 AM

Thanks, Andy.  ;)

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 07, 2008, 06:32:55 AM

My two Flavio Poli have bevelled edges...

Title: Re: Sommerso 2 color vase, no marks, can someone tell me who made it?
Post by: Andy on April 07, 2008, 07:55:14 AM

Another typical example of me , making it up as i go along ::)
Leslie Pinas book, 'circa Fifties glass' has 3 similar examples, looks similar colour
attributed to Flavio Poli, for Seguso, Vetri d'Arte.

Please may i change my opinion ;)
Regards
Andy