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Title: Knobbly ashtray with blue and white swirls - Aseda?
Post by: Ivo on April 20, 2008, 12:04:46 PM

Knobbly astray with smooth polished bottom. I like to think Aseda but is it?

Title: Re: Knobbly ashtray with blue and white swirls - Aseda?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 22, 2008, 09:09:52 PM

How often is this kind of decoration used? There's something similar in decoration in 20th-Century Glass page 31, by Ercole Barovier. Would this be a Murano shape do you think?

Here's a green one with the same style of decoration. Pezzo Unico Di Prova (wonder what that means?).
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/1646651

And here's one i've yet to identify...

Title: Re: Knobbly ashtray with blue and white swirls - Aseda?
Post by: Ivo on April 22, 2008, 09:26:04 PM

I'd love to believe it is a big name and the examples you found are really nice. But this is thickwalled, the stripes are random, the sides are pulled up as seen in knobbly Aseda / WF manner. It could be Murano - but I would not think the big ticket variety. But it could also be Maastricht, or something I have not thought of yet.

Pezzo unica di prove = unique proof piece

Title: Re: Knobbly ashtray with blue and white swirls - Aseda?
Post by: langhaugh on April 29, 2008, 04:42:51 AM

The ashtray in this eBay listing seems somewhat similar, but doesn't get any closer to a reliable identification. The reference is 230245623716. The eBay piece does look like late Chalet.

David

Title: Re: Knobbly ashtray with blue and white swirls - Aseda?
Post by: Ivo on May 05, 2008, 02:10:20 PM

Thanks for that - I would have missed it completely if you had not posted it. I agree the shape is almost identical - and Chalet would be a maker I had not thought of, as we don't find much Canadian glass here in Europe.