It’s like when you get flowers of doubtful botanical accuracy on China.
The majority of Murano glass isn’t signed, unless it’s a well known furnace. Some had labels. It’s a minefield.
I agree on black swans. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Black_Swan_with_the_Red_Beak_(6758711753).jpg
I’ve been to Pezenas. Lovely little place.
Not Murano. I suspect relatively modern Asian. Nicely done.
Maybe Ohrid?
It does indeed help, many thanks.
Get that thing in vinegar! It might be a bit earlier but those adjustable ones are usually sixties ish.
The bee is a napoleonic symbol too.
I know Swan Antiques, I used to work in Hemel. Do you want some car boot sale suggestions round there?
Could swear I replied. Yes, the stones got exported, just as things like morpho wing did.
I’d wear that in a heartbeat and it would absolutely sell for more than twenty here.
I’d agree on sixties into seventies. I’ve seen these here as sort of table top trivets, but a plant stand would work.
I’ve a wee pen somewhere with one of those beads as it’s top.
I reckon that’s Italian, or at least, those glass squares are. I’ve seen similar. Screams sixties.
If those were glass, I’d have said thirties costume and European. Quartz, though. Hm.
Between the wars, and Czech would be my thought. I think someone removed one panel to shorten it. Very pretty thing.
Hm. She looks Georgian as does that Pearl set bale, but the back engraving style is more Victorian to my eye. I surmise it was once plain till...
Late nineteenth into early twentieth. I’d think glass, might be silver. Pretty thing.
That’s spot on, I’d say. Sixties into seventies, and a really nice piece too. There was a thing for mixing wood and plastic, and the colours are...
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