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Title: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: rocco on July 30, 2015, 05:37:16 PM

Slightly unusual scrambled ball-shaped paperweight, appr. 8 cm high and wide. Indented base with broken pontil mark.

No twists or latticino or millerfiori, just bits of coloured canes, clear and opaque coloured blotches, Copper aventurine (and even a small batch of green Chromium aventurine) over a sort of "honeycomb" structure made of purple-red-white mottled glass, which (as far as I can see) is laid around a clear core.

The milky yellow dots are Uranium glass.

I would think Venetian / Murano and quite a bit of age, but I may be totally off track ;)
Both the green aventurine and the opaque Uranium seem to be quite unusual...
So any opinions highly appreciated!

Thanks,
Michael

Title: Re: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: KevinH on August 29, 2015, 08:14:25 PM

In the first photo, the right side seems to show a couple of "parts" that look like they might be "spotted cane slices? Can that be checked please? Cane you get a photo of that area?

Title: Re: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: glassobsessed on August 30, 2015, 09:03:41 AM

This seems a bit more complex than some, the red and black colours give it a sort of sophisticated feel! Looks somehow a bit 'Barovier' like, I will look in my books for clues when I get home tonight.

John

Title: Re: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: rocco on August 30, 2015, 03:09:53 PM

Thank you very much for your thoughts!

@Kevin: I don't really know what "spotted cane slices" look like, but I think it is really just the mottled base structure you see (on which the bits of coloured canes, aventurine etc. are applied).

@John: interesting thought. As I would think this piece could be referred to as a "frigger", maybe there are some elements in it which could help attributing it to a maker.
And Barovier has been around for quite some while ;)

edit: I don't know how accurate the "Artisti Barovier around 1910" attribution is, but the colour scheme and the mottling of this vase look similar to my paperweight: >> Link (http://www.1000-objekte.ch/collections/rare-murano-glass/products/artisti-barovier-murano-vase-colored-marbled-glass)

Michael

Title: Re: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: glassobsessed on September 01, 2015, 07:39:54 PM

Interesting Michael, after leafing through my books the wares I was thinking of turned out to be more 1950s. On reflection, I thought more Toso than Barovier... Sorry, almost going around in circles now!

Title: Re: Murano (?) scrambled ball shaped paperweight...
Post by: rocco on September 03, 2015, 03:11:43 PM

Thank you John.
I was quite surprised to find Murano glass from that period with a mottled decor at all ;)

I guess it is not very likely to find the maker, but who knows...

Michael