Bought today is it Murano? (ash tray)

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Bought today is it Murano? (ash tray)

Post by Adam20 on Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:13 pm







Sommerso glass - blue outer with red inside -triform 5" across rounded off - flat polished base wirth lots of wear - is it Murano and any idea of age and maker

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Re: Bought today is it Murano? (ash tray)

Post by Nic on Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:21 pm

Yup, Murano tourist-ware. Could be from the 1950s onwards...

Probably quite hard to pin down a specific factory, because so many of them produced very similar designs for this end of the market (and often at the high end of the market too!).

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