Topic: Blue swan with horrible stuck on base

[Margi]

Here is a lovely blue swan but unfortunately someone has crudely stuck on a horrible fruit silver coloured base.  It only cost 1 euro so can't complain really but can anyone tell me a little more about the swan itself at all please.
Margi

[Margi]

Hi all any thoughts on this swan please.  I am thinking possibly tourist peace.  The fruit base has "robean" on it

[glassaddict]

How big ( or small) is it please?
Regards Hil

[glassaddict]

http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.robean.it/azienda.asp&ei=wJDCSuHTN8uI4Qb87NCLCA&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=4&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Drobean%2Bglass%26hl%3Den

Found this by googling

Regards Hil

[Margi]

hello it is 20cm high x 16 wide.  Thank you for that link the company logo matches what it says on the  flower and fruit base. (I think the base is pewter as it is non magnetic).

[Lustrousstone]

There are other cheaper, non-ferrous metals than pewter. Pewter seems unlikely in this context. Strikes me as glass made in Asia and possibly base, and swan assembled for Italian company. I'm sure we had something similar on here before

[malwodyn]

Following the link to the "Robean" Homepage, I noticed that they make 'wedding favours'; this reminded me that I went to the wedding of a friend ages ago who was marrying into a family of Italian origin.  The bride's parents distributed little Capodimonte swans to all the guests at the end of the reception.  Whether this is a widespread Italian custom, or limited to a particular region of Italy, I cannot say.

[glassaddict]

Having looked throught the Robean link that I posted, I would say they are a wholesale company that probably import/make glass to be used as wedding favours. They are based in Naples and although their current catalogue doesn't show any swans that doesn't mean they didn't have swans in their previous catalogues of course.

Regards Hil 

[Carolyn Preston]

Following the link to the "Robean" Homepage, I noticed that they make 'wedding favours'; this reminded me that I went to the wedding of a friend ages ago who was marrying into a family of Italian origin.  The bride's parents distributed little Capodimonte swans to all the guests at the end of the reception.  Whether this is a widespread Italian custom, or limited to a particular region of Italy, I cannot say.

I think it is a general Italian custom. My best friend who married an Italian gave them out at their wedding. Not sure if they were swans, but some kind of bird. Bomadiero, I think they were called. We, not being Italian, called them bombaderes.

Carolyn