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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: marc on May 01, 2008, 05:16:35 PM

Title: Chinese or murano?
Post by: marc on May 01, 2008, 05:16:35 PM

Hello, are chinese or murano? thanks in advance. Marc

Title: Re: Chinese or murano?
Post by: Leni on May 01, 2008, 05:23:16 PM

Chinese, IMHO.

Title: Re: Chinese or murano?
Post by: alexander on May 01, 2008, 07:04:01 PM

Agree - these are sometimes sold in Murano as well.
Bob Hall in his "World Paperweights: Millefiori and Lampwork" shows a pic taken on a visit to Murano
of many chinese weights being sold as Murano.

Sad state of affairs.

A good clue to nixing a Murano attribution is to look to the base - bases are almost always well polished on 20th Century Murano weights. Antique ones can show pontil marks.

Title: Re: Chinese or murano?
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on May 01, 2008, 07:24:46 PM

Some of the newest Chinese weights also have polished bases.

The canes and colors in these weights are typically Chinese. The Chinese are getting better. I have seen pieces with cane bundles but on close examination these bundles are made up of typical Chinese canes.