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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 12:58:49 PM

Title: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 12:58:49 PM

Hello all I saw this item today and it caught my eye it is brown with bronzes and glitter.  It has a long stopper partly pictured.  Smooth base.  It is encased in clear.  I have an idea about this one but I am 99% wrong lol but would appreciate thoughts on the origin please.

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Title: Re: Another piece was looking at me so I bought it
Post by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 01:00:01 PM

Also what would it be used for?

Title: Re: Another piece was looking at me so I bought it
Post by: Ivo on September 20, 2009, 01:35:59 PM

Normally you'd be looking at Dalian Chinese glass, they make tons of aventurine over black. But the polished finish on the rim and the careful stopper make it much more likely that this is a piece of Vincenzo Nason, Murano from the sixties/ seventies. Not that I've seen this particular model before - but the quality is just too high for Dalian.

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 03:34:37 PM

Thanks Ivo I was at least in the correct country with my thoughts this time  :)

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Leni on September 20, 2009, 08:42:07 PM

I've got one almost identical to this, and mine is definitely Dalian.  It too has a polished rim and the stopper looks the same.  It came in a box which identified it as being made in China. 

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 08:53:25 PM

Hi Leni can you give me the measurements of yours including the stopper length.  Thank you

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 20, 2009, 09:49:57 PM

We have found a signature on the glass.  If we lay the flask on its side it is horizontal very very tiny so struggling to read it even with magnification looks like two words and we think but very unsure the last letter of the first word is an 'a' and the first letter of the second word is an 'M'. We also think it may have a couple of letters before the name.  Will try again under magnification in daylight tomorrow but meanwhile if anyone else has thoughts on top of what has been suggested.

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 21, 2009, 07:46:24 AM

Its no good we cannot for the life of us read the signature   :spls: so off to a specialist/jewelers/wherever, just to satisfy curiosity.

Title: Re: Aventurine over black perfume flask
Post by: Margi on September 21, 2009, 03:49:00 PM

Hi well we went to the Bijouterie to have the signature put under magnification but unfortunately it saw straight through the clear onto the pattern so back to square one.  Will have to just class it as signed.
Margi