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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Murano & Italy Glass => Topic started by: Carolyn Preston on September 04, 2006, 02:30:19 AM

Title: Murano in WWII
Post by: Carolyn Preston on September 04, 2006, 02:30:19 AM

As the debate about my piece of glass continues, another question has come up.  

My mother-in-law (the knower of all things, accoding to her) feels that based on the colouration,  it was made in the 20's or 30's.  I thought it might be the 30's or 40's, but then she thought that no glass would have been made during the war.

So plunge in and let me know your theories (or even the facts)

Carolyn

Title: Murano in WWII
Post by: Laura Friedman on September 05, 2006, 03:52:13 PM

According to all the reference books I've seen, almost nothing was produced during the war.  Glass was made and sold in Murano up to and afterwards, but during each war, production all but shut down.  Because of this, pre-war pieces made in the 1930s were sold post war in the mid 1940s and '50s. I believe this to be why, for instance, pre-war pieces were purchased and brought to America in the 1950s.

Laura

Title: exactly
Post by: wrightoutlook on September 26, 2006, 08:42:49 PM

Yes, Laura, exactly right. The 1950s decade was the hey-dey for Murano objects, especially vases, being sold in the United States.