A great many glassmakers and furnaces don’t polish the bases, especially studio ones. It can be a very deliberate choice. Nothing new in it, I’ve...
Ah well now. Not all Murano made glass has fire polished or smooth bases.
Most welcome.
It’s the decorators piece mark. Those would be added up so that they’d be paid.
You need what we used to call knicker elastic!
It’s very like Goebel and also Hutschenreuther too. There’s a delicacy to the little German birds.
Not all aquaria are signed. The clue will be in the fineness of the fish, for one thing.
It might be Scottish, the design looks it. It’d be thirty to fifty quid here.
It may even be pre war.
I line them with plastic, then moss and then plunge plastic pots in. Means you can remove the pots for watering.
I’d totally forgotten that Bamber Gascoigne was an author. He’s famous for rather a different thing here.
Thank you, that’s wonderful background. It’s a lovely pot.
If that aquarium is right, it’s a very valuable piece. The yacht might be worth a look. Those hocks go well too.
No, it’s not, too heavily potted and it’s not porcelain. I’m trying to remember who did that sort of chicken skin finish. Maybe dudson.
Most welcome. It’s very typical of little German bird pieces.
It’s sponged. And dead right.
German or Austrian, late nineteenth into early twentieth.
They’re great as plant pot holders.
Wedding souvenir. And yes, that view of the castle is one I had from an office window at one point.
That faience looks more like turquoise matrix.
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