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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: flying free on February 27, 2011, 08:35:27 PM
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I need some help on this one please. I have been searching extensively and still have not a clue.
In total it is 14" (35.5cm) tall and the base is just nearly 4 1/4"(10.5cm ) wide. It has a polished flat base. Is it a Murano piece?
thanks for any guidance, it would be much appreciated :sun:
m
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Definitely Murano from the mid-century. Salviati did a few things using this color blown with gold, so it may be them. There are other possibilities. Maybe we'll be able to narrow them down by finding this type label.
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thank you SO much Anita! :sun: I'll be off to have a look at labels and Salviati now.
I'd completely run out of where to look next.
m
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I looked for the label, but couldn't find one like it. My best guesses for the lamp would be Salviati, Barbini, or Fratelli Toso based on the color and style of the lamp. The label is most likely a generic paper one. Often these label types can be associated with one or a few companies. It is a lovely lamp. I love the color -- one of my favorites.
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thank you Anita. I really appreciate your help :)
I'd not thought Salviati but had searched Barbini (colour) and Fratelli Toso (shape) but not found anything. I shall have another trawl and see what I can come up with using those as searches. My knowledge of Italian glass is just zero really apart from remembering things I've seen on here.
m
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Nice lamp isn't it, I tied that knot in the cable earlier today. ::) I thought it would be harder to rewire if the cable got pushed into the body, I almost bought it but in the end decided not to (obviously!).
Are you following me around Michelle? ;D If you go to the next one (or Malvern), we could meet up for a :t:
John
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Gorgeous lamp. The combination of the lavender and the gold foil work very well. I wonder if we should add AVeM to the list, although I think it's going to hard to attribute it to a specific maker as any of the top furnaces could have made it.
David
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thank you David :) I think so too. And thanks for adding to the list. I love a search, so now I have a good few to investigate further.
John, I'm laughing as I type - Today is *my* local and I know you live much further away, so tis you who is following me ;D Actually a friend came down from Wales today to go with me - she bought more than I did ::) We went later than we should have, it took us hours to get in >:( and I've become very choosy about what I buy it seems. In fact I did buy a beautiful piece of Wye pottery there as well, so I came away very pleased. Cafe talk now, but they announced today that the next one would be followed immediately the next day with the one in Malvern. So either those dealers are going to be very busy and shattered over the two days, or there may be a better spread of people across them both. I never go to Malvern. I don't have the time (and my green pass is never that long ;D ) but happy to meet for a cuppa if we end up going to the same one again :)
m
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I did not buy anything there yesterday (apart from a cup of tea...), my discipline amazed me. :o
A friend did buy a Whitefriars Toby jug in blue, from the same seller who you bought the lamp base from, this is why I had time to have a good look at it and fiddle with the flex. It was one of two items that I saw that did tempt me but I have new 'rules' for buying. :cry:
The next flea there is towards the end of April, it would be great to catch up and maybe show off any purchases.
John
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Admittedly I'm clutching at straws here, but in the Salviati book 'Confections in Glass 1855-1914' there are three chalcedony pieces and one of them has a foot that is very similar to my lamp , the smallest piece - it is id'd as Salviati. I just wondered whether this might bring me closer to an id, as I've failed to find anything to match this lamp in any way really. I've not managed to find a single piece with a foot or shape like it until I happened upon that Salviati vase today.
I found one further piece that to my eye has the most similarities which is a pale blue lamp by Seguso it says
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/lighting/table-lamps/seguso-murano-glass-table-lamp/id-f_722947/
I've had the lamp rewired with gold wire and it has a white silk lampshade on and looks wonderful now. Each time I look at it I think of Liz Taylor lol.
Thanks for looking and any further thoughts very much appreciated.
m
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I think I've found a match for the decor, both the correct colour purple and the gold, in a different type of piece. It's a piece by AVEM.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AVEM-Murano-GOLD-FLECKS-PURPLE-Mini-Fazzoletto-Toothpick-Pin-Holder-VINTAGE-/131087579452?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e856db93c
m
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The devil's advocate asks how Svazzo knows it's AVEM
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That looks like an Italian retail label often uesd for pattern number or price . i have several lamps with same .
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Hi Christine
In a previous listing for that piece, it said
'I have owned virtually the same piece before with an Avem label, and there was 1 recently listed here on Ebay with label as well.'
That listing was ended because of an error in the listing.
I'm hoping that since then, with the change in the listing, that a firm id has been found.
Having searched for this colour for a long time (I've just realised it's been three years - really? it doesn't feel that long but I've seen a LOT of purplish Murano pieces) that is, as far as my eye can tell, a definite colour match. Whereas all the others I've found have been slightly too blue or slightly too pink or something just not a match with them, again as far as my eye can tell. So I think it's from the same maker, if it is AVEM.
Thank you JP :) I've not been able to find a match for that label, but I suppose if it is a retail label then that might be why.
m
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I'm adding a couple of extra pictures which I hope show how the cord hole has been made and also a bit more of the effect of the gold leaf on the base in the hope this might help id the maker one day.
The base is beautifully polished flat and has now been moved around a lot on a polished wood table so the label is a little more worn I think.
It appears to be lavender opaline, rolled in gold leaf then cased in clear.
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It's incredibly difficult to photograph the foil as it is so fine and minute.
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This is by Tomaso Buzzi.
If it helps in some way, the gold foil or leaf effect looks like this on my lampbase. However the lamp is tall and slim so there is not the base width to show much effect of how the foil is laid on really. But it does look very similar to this example .
https://www.fondazionecfc.org/en/work/buzzi-oval-vase-laguna-glass-incamiciato
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These say they are Barbini - I came across them searching for something else:
https://www.vetridmurano.com/alfredo-barbini/alfredo-barbini-lavender-lattimo-murano-glass-cornucopia-bowl
Still love the lamp. I'm so glad I bought it. But it would be nice to know who made it :)
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similar /same technique ? or not?
Tomaso Buzzi for Venini - Dorotheum
https://www.dorotheum.com/en/l/5231405/
and a lamp here which according to the seller is also Tomaso Buzzi for Venini 1930s
https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/lighting/floor-lamps/rare-floor-lamp-tomaso-buzzi-venini/id-f_3581022/
Hoping someone will happen upon a similar shape or colour one day :)