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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ellen on April 05, 2006, 04:15:54 AM
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This small pitcher ? has been sitting in my cabinet for so long now that I don't remember what is was sold to me as. Any thoughts all of you out there might have would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Ellen
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Hi Ellen
This does appear to be close to Ysart glass possibly Strathearn yet I suspect it is not.
I am going to move this to the Glass forum for alternative suggestions.
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It looks like Murano, V Nason to me. :?
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It looks like Murano, V Nason to me.
Exactly what I thought too Max, until I saw the match striker that Frank has posted, in a poll, on the Ysart forum. :? :? Now I am just pure confused.
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Only my humble opinion, but it doesn't feel like matchstriker Frank posted on Ysart. Something about the almost Hammerite-d aventurine and the flow up the body, not to mention the Italianesque scrolled arms all say Italian to me.
Only an opinion though! :)
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I side with Max (nudge nudge)
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for the input
Ellen :D
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This looks like avventurina decoration on a Murano vase.
This glass found its biggest application in Murano in the mid-nineteenth century, first at the furnaces of Pietro Bigaglia and then at Salviati & C., where it was melted once again and blown to obtain extremely rich items, often made for the royal family. In the twentieth century avventurina was used by only a small number of glass-works as it was very difficult to obtain. Special mention should be made here of Barovier & Toso and Aureliano Toso who, on the designs of the painter Dino Martins executed a series of vases with this material
(Franco Deboni - Murano 900 pp339)
Avventurina is the given name for a form of decoration, Nason used the name for their wares but it was also used by other factories. This could be a small piece by Martins – not ‘Oriente’, ‘Eldorado’ or ‘Zanfirici’ but a small one off piece, the highly coloured red and green with the avventurina look like some smaller bits he did – see Murano 900, or Dino Martins book.
Just a suggestion
Thanks
Adam P
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Hi Adam,
Thank you for the time and trouble taken to reply to my inquiry about the little jug/pitcher/whatever. You've given me some interesting clues and leads and I shall follow up on them. The bottom line is that I really like it and that's what really counts !
Kind regards,
Ellen
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