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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: meltdown on April 08, 2023, 06:12:20 PM

Title: Fornia Fornacemian Vetro Artistico LARGE Murano Glass Heron Signed ID SIG PLS
Post by: meltdown on April 08, 2023, 06:12:20 PM

I purchased this beautiful Murano Glass Heron for my husband around ten years ago, it is signed to the base.

It is one of a pair and I always promised my husbad one day I would buy another to go with (if I could find one).  The other would have a curved neck bending down.

I have lost the information I previously found out about the signature (artist).  I do remember I found grey glass ones but not the same colour as the one I bought him.

Any help identifying the artist would be a great start to finding him the other one (if there is another existing out there somewhere).  :-)

Title: Re: Fornia Fornacemian Vetro Artistico LARGE Murano Glass Heron Signed ID SIG PLS
Post by: meltdown on April 09, 2023, 11:45:03 AM

I think I have now found the artist.  Many thanks for those of you have looked.  Here is a piece (not in the pink I have) they are typically half and half of a colour, mine is not.  The artists name is Renata Anatra I think.

Here are some links to what the pair look like.

https://www.chairish.com/product/7299691/mid-20th-century-renata-anatra-murano-artglass-stylized-bird-sculptures-signed-a-pair

https://handblownmurano.com/murano-glass-renato-anatra-2-birds-sculptures-alexandrite-neodymium-25-signed.htm

https://www.1stdibs.com/en-gb/furniture/decorative-objects/sculptures/animal-sculptures/renata-anatra-murano-art-glass-stylized-bird-figurine-signed/id-f_29764992/

I do believe the one I purchased for my husband is neodymium glass.

If anybody finds the bird with the head low rather than high in the pink colourway please let me know. 

Many thanks again.

Title: Re: Fornia Fornacemian Vetro Artistico LARGE Murano Glass Heron Signed ID SIG PLS
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 09, 2023, 08:11:46 PM

Hello and welcome.  :)
I'm sure folk will love to see this and I hope you'll get  a bit more information.
I'm not completely sure the heron you have is neodynium - does it change colour betwen atrifical light and daylight?
Neodynium glass is a grey blue in fluorescent light, and a sort of rosy pink in daylight
Your heron seems a little more amethyst in colour to my eye, from your photo.

You did really well just finding this one scuplture!
And then you answered your own query before we could get in, thank you so much for the interesting links, and for taking the trouble to post your images directly.  :)