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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: tropdevin on July 06, 2009, 06:16:24 PM

Title: Ysart style Murano
Post by: tropdevin on July 06, 2009, 06:16:24 PM

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Which  garlanded flower (http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5574631383&toolid=10001&campid=5336261829&customid=&icep_item=170354329749&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg) came first...the chicken or the egg? Regardless, garlanded flowers appear first as antique French weights....but it is interesting to see a Murano one.

Anyone seen a Murano one before?  Any idea when they were made?

Alan

Title: Re: Ysart style Murano
Post by: glasstrufflehunter on July 07, 2009, 06:09:40 PM

The canes and shape look like Seguso to me. Can't help you with age tho. I would make a guess of maybe 50s or 60s.

I have two Seguso 'garlanded flower' weights. The garland is a single row of cane clusters as opposed to the two in that weight and the flower in the center is a large murrine.

The flower in that weight does not look like lampwork. It looks like it might be a transfer with the flower having been hand painted on paper and inserted in the weight.