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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass Paperweights => Topic started by: cubby01 on February 14, 2013, 05:47:26 PM
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...where the murrines are not encased in glass but are on the surface like this one.
I bought this in a local auction house. Is it Murano? Age? I want to gift to someone that already has a few Murano millefiori pieces so would like to know if that's what it is first.
It's approx 2-3/4" wide and 2-1/4" tall.
Thanks,
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Also modern Chinese I think
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If it is, they really, really really are improving. I think it's rather lovely... for a pwt.
(but that's me not being a pwt afficionado)
But as to what is is called, I'm clueless. "Surface decorated", which applies to uncased vases etc. doen't quite seem right.
Murrine? (Mhurrine?) - There's a name for the Venetian vases made entirely from a jigsaw of canes in the surface...
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If it is, they really, really really are improving.
Yes, it's very nice in person. I am still doubtful this one is Chinese. But I think I was wrong once ;D
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I recognise some of these canes in the Effetre catalogue - which would make at least the canes Murano - but they are exported world wide.
It is actually a solid glass paperweight (deserving this name)? I own a couple of hollow glass balls plus several miniature bottles/vases - which I attribute to Livio Campanella (http://liviocampanella.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/lang,en/).
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Thanks Wolf. It is hollow. It weighs about half what a similarly sized solid glass pwt weighs. Still, at 7.75 oz (220g) I think it's heavy enough for a pwt. It's nothing like the hollow hanging ornament type balls I've seen.
I looked at a few of the Livio Campanella pieces (different site as my browser wouldn't let me in the one linked above). Anyway, there were quite a few canes in common. I realize that's not definitive but keeps it in the realm of likelihood. -Buck
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This weight is far neater than the surface decorated example (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,51305.0.html) recently posted by member peteralba, which is currently thought to be very recent Chinese.
The canes (which I agree are Lefftre) are very well set, and even sit more closely than some of the vases by Livio Campanella. I suspect this is indeed a Campenella weight.
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The two weights are indeed very different - and Peteralba's one is definitely Heart Shop Foundation, current "new goods", first appeared last year. I keep a very close watch on the Heart Foundation Shops' new goods.
But we still haven't got any suggestions about how to describe an uncased millifiori wieght, which is the question posed!
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"Surface decorated" is a usual description.
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This is from Murano circa 1970. It is not Chinese.