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Title: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: MatW on January 31, 2018, 10:42:54 AM
Hi, I would like to hear your opinions on this vase. It is obviously Murano, and I have often seen similar ones identified as Salviati, late 19th c. But is it that what it is? Size is 21 cm, and it has a snapped pontil mark. Thank you very much in advance!
Mat
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: chopin-liszt on January 31, 2018, 03:37:42 PM
My vote would be a "yes" to Salviati.  :)
But you'd be better off waiting for somebody who knows more than I do, to confirm. ;D
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: MatW on January 31, 2018, 03:54:27 PM
Thank you Sue!
Mat
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: chopin-liszt on January 31, 2018, 06:26:27 PM
You're encouraging me. Not always wise!
The eyes look right, the gold leaf looks right, the delicate, complicated, modelling looks right, the colours look right... ;D
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: MatW on February 01, 2018, 10:53:19 AM
Thank you again, yes, the more I look around for Salviati pieces, the more I believe it to be right, too. Could be Barovier, too, from the same period...
Mat
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: chopin-liszt on February 01, 2018, 12:16:37 PM
I hope Glassobsessed will comment. He knows much more than I do about this sort of thing.  :-[
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: glassobsessed on February 01, 2018, 06:54:39 PM
Something about this one gives me the impression it is late 20C rather than late 19C but judging from photos only is problematic. If there are no specks of ash in the clear sections then it will probably have been made in the last 60 years or so.

This red candlestick looks later to me, in stark contrast to the opalescent pitcher and ice bowl with serpent stem.

John
Title: Re: Vase With Dolphin Stem - Help Please!
Post by: MatW on February 02, 2018, 09:00:43 AM
Thank you glassobsessed, I will check if there are any specks of ash!
Mat