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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Animals & Figurines => Topic started by: Murfin on July 06, 2011, 07:22:26 PM
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Hi,
Could anyone help I have a fab horseshead most likely Murano and signed but can't id the signature. It's large about 2ft tall on a sandblasted plinth. I'm no experts just know what I like. Apologies if this has been posted twice. I'm new to this.
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wow, that is pretty amazing! Sorry I can't help with the sig but I'm sure someone will be along shortly and be able to decipher it.
Does it change colour under long life lightbulb?
It's beautiful.
m
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Thanks. I think it's stunning and would welcome any info. I haven't had it under a longlife bulb so I don't know! There is always afirst time:)
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well if you have one and try it, it may turn pale blue - if so it is neodymium glass.
It does look quite intensely coloured so perhaps not, but it is worth a try - always very exciting to realise glass can change colour (unless, like me, you opened your shopping bag expecting the lime green chunky glass bowl you'd picked out in the charity shop and instead, when unwrapped out of the newpaper, you had a dirty pink bowl;D)
the first word looks like Germano to me.
m
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My first thought was Licio Zanetti, but the signiture isnt right for Licio. see here for and example.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,28049.15.html
Beautiful piece, sorry i couldnt be any more help though
michelle
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Thanks. Licio Zanetti has been mentioned but the top word begins with a G so that's why I'm on here to solve a mystery.
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the last word looks like Lata? telli - the 'telli' bit seems right or I suppose at a push it could be L.Zanetti - but it doesn't really look right to me.
the first word looks either like Germano or Germany and the only Germano I could find in a quick search with a Germano Moretti. But that doesn't fit :-\
m
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Both Zanetti's father and son where/are glass makers, although ive never seen signitures from either. I believe both where called Vincenzo ? so that doesnt really fit
There is Carlo Moretti ?
michelle
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Or the top word could be Murano with a curly stroke going into the M.
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Thanks for all your help :)
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Licio , another Zanetti?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Murano-transparent-Crystal-horse-head-signed-Zanetti-/150536805996?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item230cb15e6c
Oops sorry Michelle you have already discounted him :-[
Chris :sun:
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This is a lovely horses head, and there is enough signature that we should be able to identify it.
Please can you try rubbing talcum powder into the signature and taking another picture without the flash on the right hand side, as this distracts from the end of the signature........thanks.
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yes, Rosie I agree, I've been searching contemporary Murano makers but with no luck so far (well I did find one I thought could be the same maker but the sig didn't add up irritatingly).
m
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Will do folks. Thanks.
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The first word really looks like Germany to me. I can't make out the bottom at all. Perhaps the horse is German. It might still have been designed by someone in Murano, because several people in Murano designed and made glass for the German companies. Germany has a lot of talented glass artists, though, so it may have been designed by people there.
Beautiful horse wherever it was made.
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I was thinking about the horse head and thought I would put an idea out there. Do you think the first line might be Ermanno, with what looks like a G actually being a distorted E? If it is Ermanno, there is only one person I can think of who would have made the horse -- Ermanno Nason. His work is signed in different ways from the little I've seen. If I remember correctly, some of his things are signed Ermanno, other things E. Nason, and still others with his full name. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of the signatures.
I am probably reaching, but thought I would mention it as a maybe. He designed and made a lot of horses in his long career. Your horse would fit in with the type of work he did in his later career.
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Might it be worth asking Dean if he would pop in and have a look at this beautiful horse head and signature for you murfin.....he has just left a reply to this link:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=42319.new;topicseen#new
He might not mind you asking him as he has an email address next to his name.
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Germano whatever-his-name-is used to have an outlet in the next street, I always wondered how many horse heads you can shift? I must have one of his leaflets somewhere, but cannot find it. No idea what his name was - not Zanetti, not quite Locatelli but something very much like it....
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Hello. Did the talcum powder and it's still no clearer.Thanks for the suggestion!
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Would like to know more about "Germano whatever his name is if possible". Can't find anything useful on google.
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The only glassblower I know with a first name Germano, is Germano Padoan.....Granna Glass, (Swedish) an amazing glass artist, worth googling just for the mouthwatering glass he makes. I am the very proud owner of one of his silver flecked ellies.
http://www.mncrystal-art.nl/germano_padoan_album/index.html
But I don't think he made your lovely hose head Murfin.