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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: rocco on November 10, 2012, 11:47:02 AM

Title: Turquoise fish vase, Salviati style -- maker? age?
Post by: rocco on November 10, 2012, 11:47:02 AM

Nice turquoise-blue fish vase on round base, clear glass applications with lots of gold, eyes ivory and black coloured canes, in the style of Salviati 19th century...
Stands 19 cm high, and weighs 320 g.
Base with folded-over rim (there is some colourless glass towards the edge, so it seems to be cased?).

Any idea of maker and age? -- I guess vases like this have been made for a very long time, but the shape seems a little less common than the Salviati dolphin lookalikes; here is a set with 2 similar shaped bud vases >> Link (http://www.trocadero.com/stores/svazzo/items/1087653/item1087653.html)
The dirt of decades is buried deep in the fish' tail (I know, this can happen in a few years, too ;))

Thanks!
Michael

Title: Re: Turquoise fish vase, Salviati style -- maker? age?
Post by: TxSilver on November 13, 2012, 04:03:50 AM

Hard to know for sure. The mouth reminds me more of the work of Fratelli Toso. However, many could have made this type of mouth, so Toso is only a possibility.

Title: Re: Turquoise fish vase, Salviati style -- maker? age?
Post by: rocco on November 13, 2012, 12:54:22 PM

Thanks a lot, Anita!
I was afraid that it would be quite tough to attribute my fishy...

I saw these 2 Fratelli Toso fish (https://24da0e87-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/muranozoo/fish-invertebrates-4/Fratelli%20Toso%20Fish%20Jason%20Chang.JPG?attachauth=ANoY7cqSnw-Zvyf3v-fmQ7SIlwLj41_n-7hmslPIFhoWXNYl5JVW5wQyJrWyk2J1nr4gKKalgGlzBKHBWKVew7EFKFubTwnSsiqUQeKwhpxwnc0QCSYZFVA-JDiURCUrRb0F2jkPj6RgikY_OMMu9u-JnoBLwOy9EN1bO9n_1mEnR1ZqC3jm-eta6jLekMTmCbl7arXnxDGGsoSjp603VdCDW6-Z5LG9xU_PSLUtpciToNjHvKXHjmJVsx-a4u57WJ45_tdyyfPr7W2ySndfrJ0igXdiIdqz4Q%3D%3D&attredirects=0) in your zoo, and the mouth (and the optical pattern in the red one) do look quite similar to mine.
I guess dating my fish will prove quite difficult as well; would the eyes or the turquoise colour indicate anything?

Michael