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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: Bernard C on April 01, 2010, 04:05:17 AM

Title: Stourbridge? lampwork pair - ID = Bianconi erotica
Post by: Bernard C on April 01, 2010, 04:05:17 AM

http://www.yobunny.org.uk/glassgallery/displayimage.php?pos=-12696

A rather strange lampwork sculpture.   What is it supposed to represent?

Hajdamach II discusses independent lampworkers in the Stourbridge area - can this be attributed to one of them?   Who was it made for?   Stevens & Williams?   Dates?

Thanks for your interest.

Bernard C.  8)

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Margi on April 01, 2010, 06:31:22 AM

What is it supposed to represent - I see two people embracing but the heads leave something to be desired maybe in a stage of evolution.

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: glassobsessed on April 01, 2010, 08:15:30 AM

Dancers?

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: pamela on April 01, 2010, 08:37:47 AM

If there weren't each two legs and arms would have said seahorses?  :pb:

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 01, 2010, 08:42:07 AM

I would have said not Victorian   :o or earlier Stourbridge. Modern Italy or indeed anywhere 20th C. Lampwork is/was made everywhere.

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Cathy B on April 01, 2010, 11:03:49 AM

 :-[ Reminds me of the Italian segment from the movie Night on Earth, but minus one Vespa.

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Frank on April 01, 2010, 11:50:29 AM

A clear image would help, it is not typical lampwork but far to unclear to assess.

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: johnphilip on April 01, 2010, 12:06:54 PM

I see them as dancers out of some weird Opera or Ballet in costume and head dress or masks . Italian.....! and thats before a drink . My new specs are on order . ::)

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Paul S. on April 01, 2010, 01:41:27 PM

In fact I thought I'd logged onto the wrong internet site when I first saw what I thought they were doing >:D

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: langhaugh on April 01, 2010, 03:57:18 PM

Bernard:

You are doubly a very naughty boy. In defence of my posts in the other two threads, it was before midnight in Canada when I made them.

David

PS Thank goodness for naughty boys.

Title: Re: Stourbridge? lampwork pair for Id, please
Post by: Bernard C on April 03, 2010, 04:50:14 AM

Well, I had hoped you would have worked it out by reference to my other two posts.   Anyway it is genuine Bianconi erotica, and worth a king's ransom, I believe.  It has the same status as the other two pieces.   Apologies for the picture quality.   It was cropped from a larger image that would have made everything much more obvious.

Bernard C.  8)