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Title: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on March 30, 2011, 10:26:00 AM

Hi, I have been asked to help identify this vase....it has a small pontil mark on the base and what looks like a Makers Mark.
The third picture is a rubbing of the base mark....in case that helps.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Rosie.

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: flying free on March 30, 2011, 08:54:44 PM

Rosie I can't help anyway but your pics are enlarging very small and I'd love to have a good look at the piece.
Can you enlarge bigger please?
thanks
m

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on March 30, 2011, 08:59:37 PM

Hi m  :hi:, I will try to see what I can do, but they are not my pictures, they were sent to me, and I have just uploaded them as they were sent.......I'll have a go though.  I wondered if the circle was actually an eye?? I enlarged the pictures by enlarging the whole page!!
Thanks for having a look. :sun:

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on March 31, 2011, 07:16:06 PM

Here we go, lets see if this works!! :X:

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on April 06, 2011, 10:28:13 PM

This has had over 100 views.....can I take it that no-one has any idea what it is or who made it??   :usd:

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: Anne on April 06, 2011, 10:31:18 PM

I'd say that was a fair assumption Rosie!  :ha:  Don't despair though as sometimes we get an ID months or even years afterwards.  :t:

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: langhaugh on April 07, 2011, 06:59:09 AM

It doesn't seem like anything Murano that I've seen, Rosie. Is there a reason for thinking it is?

David

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 07, 2011, 07:32:12 AM

How big is it? For some reason, it reminds me of those tiny baskets and dishes you see with a checked base pattern, which I think of as Japanese (but that could be totally wrong). I think the concentric rings are just mould marks. It certainly doesn't strike me as being from Murano.

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on April 07, 2011, 09:59:20 AM

Hi Christine and David  :hi:

I have asked the owner for the dimensions....she has a whole collection of Murano glass that were bought as presents and so feels as this is one of them, it could be Murano.
I'll post the dimensions as soon as I get them.......thanks for responding to the nudge, I appreciate it.
Rosie.

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 08, 2011, 12:40:55 PM

This is what it reminds me of http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Victorian-Glass-Flower-Basket-C1900-Small-Posy-Vase-/320678051511

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: langhaugh on April 08, 2011, 03:21:29 PM

Rosie: 

I've seen candle holders that are similar. Is that a possibility?


David

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on April 08, 2011, 09:05:07 PM

I'm still waiting for a reply from the lady who owns it to give you the dimensions.  I think it is daintier than the one you have mentioned Christine....and possibly daintier.  As I haven't actually seen or held it,  I can't really say if it could be a candle holder David.....as soon as I get an answer, I will post the dimensions.
Thank you for your responses,  it really would be good to know what it is. :sun:
Rosie.

Title: Re: ? Murano Vase...can you please help with identification??
Post by: rosieposie on April 10, 2011, 10:34:44 AM

Measurements here now....it is around 9" high and 9" wide at the widest point, so quite a big piece.  Hope that helps. :sun:
Rosie.