Topic: Glass decanter or bottle with fish decoration

[Ben.unwin]

Picked up this awful piece today and I absolutely love it! 
Does anyone know where its from or what it is?
Its brown in colour with silver overlay decoration, has a ground neck and stopper, 2 spouts at the rim and a polished base of sorts.
I did think it was Murano but I'm really not sure.
Any help appreciated 

[Lustrousstone]

It's a cocktail shaker, possibly 1930s. I think it might go with Czech rather than Murano

[chopin-liszt]

  It is rather fabulous. One of these things the comes out around the other side of awful and is truly glorious.

[Paul S.]

I'm with Christine for use and origin - but don't see the sort of wear to indicate 1930s - plus the decoration doesn't look deco enough for that period ..............    too many curves  ...........   so I think quite a lot later.

[Coupsdestylo]

It is a cocktail shaker, BUT a lot of shaker collectors would disagree although some still collect these, for most collectors it needs a strainer.
In this type of shaker sometimes the lid has 2 grooves so that when rotated you can keep the lid on and strain the cocktail most shaker collectors are into cocktails and they like this sort as they let shards of ice through sharders is a term bandied about for them, I would be looking to place this in the 3rd quarter of the 20C although could be later. It's certainly eyecandy with lots going on :-)

[Coupsdestylo]

Just realised why it's familiar, I have this in a different design :-)

[Coupsdestylo]

You can see a grooved version on the left

[agincourt17]

I have a 'goldfish bowl' vase with the same fishy decoration.  It is about 7 inches in diameter , and the body is of smoky brown glass. The 3 fish that circle the bowl among fronds of weed are blowing bubbles. The fish and weed have silver overlay, but the bubbles are just transparent areas. The background is heavily stippled.

Absolutely no idea who made it, but it appears mass-produced, and I had always assumed that it was post-1930.

It is a nightmare to photograph to try and give any kind of realistic representation.

Fred.

[Paul S.]

very attractive Fred  -  I think "post 1930" is called hedging your bets              Whenever we see goldfish bowl shapes I'm reminded of the Borske Sklo 'Nemo' globular shapes - although they don't have this decoration of course.

[Mosquito]

The combination of an etched design and metallic overlay reminds me a little of some pieces I used to own: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,14510