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Title: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: TheGlassDept on September 01, 2009, 06:27:27 PM: any information on this one?
Thank you kindly,
Best,
Al
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: Max on September 01, 2009, 07:30:29 PM: Lovely little thing, isn't it? It's Italian, but I couldn't tell you which designer. There are similar ones in Leslie Pina's book 'Circa Fifties Glass' on page 121 (depending which edition you have).
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: TheGlassDept on September 01, 2009, 08:35:01 PM: Thanks, Max. It does look extraordinary. I'll go through the book section when I have a moment and look what I will need...
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: TxSilver on September 01, 2009, 10:04:35 PM: Two companies that were fond of bubblegum pink are Fratelli Toso and Barbini. I couldn't tell what was going on for the base. Is that a felt pad? or is the bowl ground into the colored glass? or something else?
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: langhaugh on September 02, 2009, 05:29:43 AM: Yes, it's nominally an ashtray. I say nominally because they were seldom used for that purpose. Yet I do recollect my mum in the sixties using what must have been a Holmegaard piece for an ashtray. As Craig pointed out in another post, cigs couldn't hurt the glass, but they didn't do much for my mum's health.

David
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: TheGlassDept on September 02, 2009, 05:42:12 AM: There was a kind of foil sticking to the base which I removed, the base is polished (or rather it used to be polished). And my Granny used her Murano ashtray on a daily basis until she stopped smoking finally and gave it to me.
Al
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: obscurities on September 02, 2009, 06:58:26 AM: Was it foil covering the whole bottom, or a small remnant of a foil label??

Pretty piece, I love that color of pink and have several different pieces of Murano with pink interiors and exteriors.....
Craig
Title: Re: ash tray (or is it?)
Post by: TheGlassDept on September 02, 2009, 08:03:04 AM: It was a piece of plastic foil somebody stuck to the stand, definitely not a label, they cut it out themselves and not very accurately, either.