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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: malcyp on June 21, 2009, 12:01:32 PM

Title: Green lidded footed jar - not Holmegaard, possibley Empoli?
Post by: malcyp on June 21, 2009, 12:01:32 PM

hi this preserve jar is 9" x 4".when i bought it i was thinking holmegaard,then i got home and checked it against the one in the 20th century glass book and there were a few differences.
so i am quite unsure now.
please help ,thank you all
malc

Title: Re: is this holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on June 21, 2009, 04:21:13 PM

Looks quite Italian to me, c.1970s.

Title: Re: is this holmegaard?
Post by: malcyp on June 21, 2009, 04:49:48 PM

would it be murano or something else do you think?
well it's still quite a nice looking piece,someone will like it i'm sure,it will go in the cabinet.
thanks for your help again

Title: Re: is this holmegaard?
Post by: Pinkspoons on June 21, 2009, 05:05:50 PM

Not really my field - but I'd guess one of the Empoli factories. I might be wrong.

Title: Re: Green lidded footed jar - not Holmegaard, possibley Empoli?
Post by: Ivo on June 21, 2009, 09:31:49 PM

Empoli for certain but very hard to pin down on a single factory.