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Title: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: flying free on April 18, 2010, 06:05:47 PM

Any help on this would be appreciated as I have absolutely no idea about ppwts  :-[- having searched for the maker, I wonder if is going to be possible at all to find out who might have made this and when :-\  so any pointers on where to look or any information would be great  please :)
Many thanks in advance for any help
m

Title: Re: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on April 18, 2010, 08:47:15 PM

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Hi. The label indicated generic Murano glass, and I suspect that is as close as one is likely to get.

Can I add your images to my on-line Murano project?

Alan

Title: Re: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: flying free on April 18, 2010, 10:24:55 PM

Hi Alan
thank you - I didn't think I would get much more information than the label to be honest.  It has that strange black blob of what looks like ink or fluff in it which is odd though and I was wondering about it.
But... any ideas on when it might have been made?  Just interested/curious really. 

And yes of course you may use the pictures  :)

m

Title: Re: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: tropdevin on April 19, 2010, 07:06:58 AM

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Hi. I think the black blob is just a bit of debris that had arrived by accident during manufacture. As for date, the style of the label suggests 1960s - 1970s to me, but I may be wrong.

Alan

Title: Re: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: Sach on April 19, 2010, 02:57:42 PM

The perspective shifts just a little bit between the images but I cannot tell if the "blob" is on the surface or is embedded into the glass.  Another view at a 90 degree angle to these two would settle that.  If it is embedded no "fuzz" or fiber would have survived the heat.  Black glass tends to be high in lead and and will sometimes bleed across the surface as the piece is worked and is the most likely answer if it doesn't wash off with a bit of acetone.   The single large bubble looks like it may be from poor gathering technique.  In all it looks like a production piece where speed was the priority and the quality control was a bit lax.

Title: Re: vetro artistico veneziano swirl paperweight
Post by: flying free on April 19, 2010, 09:16:26 PM

Hi Sach and Alan
thanks for your information.  Sach the black bit is well and truly in the middle of the clear glass and from a different angle you can see under a magnifier, where it 'spreads or trails' out from the black centre into the clear glass  so I guess it was a stray bit of black glass  :-\.

thanks again.
m