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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: keith on October 21, 2009, 02:38:43 PM

Title: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 21, 2009, 02:38:43 PM

1.75kg,8 inches across,Mandruzzato?or wrong again?Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: TxSilver on October 21, 2009, 07:04:49 PM

I've no idea who made your bowl. It is not a geode. Geode bowls look like a canteloupe cut in half. They all called geodes because they look like rock geodes, which are colorful agate on the inside and granite outside. Lapidary people saw them in half, and polish the top.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 21, 2009, 07:45:55 PM

Thanks Anita,don't think it's Mandruzzato either after looking at some of their stuff,will delve some more,Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 21, 2009, 09:08:12 PM

Seguso geode bowl maybe?,sorry not to good with Murano,or much else when it comes down to it!Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: Max on October 21, 2009, 10:22:12 PM

As Anita said, your little bowl isn't a 'geode' shape, although I'm not actually sure who coined the term 'geode' really.  I sold one of these about 6 years ago exactly the same, I'm pretty sure I listed as Sommerso Murano - that might be the best you can do.  :)

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 21, 2009, 11:31:06 PM

Thankyou,will look further,Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: obscurities on October 22, 2009, 02:45:26 PM

I am attaching an image of a bowl that can be called a Geode. It is by definition a shape.

Craig

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 22, 2009, 04:06:31 PM

See what you mean,maybe the glass maker had one to many when he/she(must be p.c)made mine?Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: TxSilver on October 22, 2009, 04:07:39 PM

Can't resist posting another geode. This one even has the outside that looks like granite. I can't decide who made this bowl. Fratelli Toso or Barbini maybe. It is a most gorgeous geode.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: obscurities on October 22, 2009, 04:09:59 PM

That one is interesting.....  I like the way they actually "simulated" the exterior of an actual geode....

Craig

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 23, 2009, 09:43:12 AM

Taken another picture,does this help?

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: obscurities on October 23, 2009, 02:17:47 PM

The colors and form of the piece are too generic to place a name on the house that produced it..... Many of the Murano pieces such as this are simply that way....

It is a pretty piece of glass, but will probably remain anonymous.

Craig

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 23, 2009, 02:24:17 PM

Ok,thanks,another unknown,getting a large collection of these,Keith.

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: TxSilver on October 23, 2009, 02:49:01 PM

There is a lot of Murano glass that can't be attributed, Keith. The island had small furnaces that most of the people in the USA have never heard of. Someone who recently visited Murano told me that it was still that way. The copying of styles as people moved among companies or borrowed popular designs from other companies made attribution even more difficult. I've had so much difficulty trying to attribute the animals. I would stand in awe of anyone trying to attribute the ashtrays. Of course, one can take the eBay approach and call anything that is unattributable to Seguso... just don't try to pin them down on which Seguso it was.  :D

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: keith on October 23, 2009, 03:38:30 PM

Thanks Anita,makes you wonder if they did it on purpose just to confuse us collectors,eh?

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 23, 2009, 06:46:52 PM

The trouble is that so many of the things we collect were not sold as collectables: they were just ornaments or things to use and they probably had a label at point of sale. You can rest assured that all the modern "collectables" that fill the pages of magazines like Collect it (no offence to the magazine, the manufacturers or the collectors) are well labelled. Even many modern glass workers don't sign or mark many of their more ordinary ranges (unless you ask) because they just making things to enjoy, not things to collect

Title: Re: Is this a 'geode' bowl?
Post by: ejean9 on October 29, 2009, 11:12:21 PM

nice bowls..all of them.. ;)