Featured Grandmothers earrings?

She loved to go out..

 

Any info would be awesome

 

I'd call those craft show specials. Odds are you'll never find the maker. They could be late 80s Italian lampwork too. Or something like that. The late 80s bit is the only part I'm sure of.

 

I can see her in purple gown. Beautiful. Thank you for response.

 

I was thinking Italian lampwork, too. The glass looks fairly well done.

You don't see this kind of thing too often. Lovely.

 

I'll third Italian lampwork, sea horses. Almost certainly made in Venice, it's such a common motif there. I'm inclined to say 70s not 80s from that attachment and the colour. I'd wear those and covet them.

 

That was my immediate thought, then looked at the head & thought it looked more like a rooster. Since there are marine horses (hippocamps) & marine goats (capricorns) decided these had to be marine roosters!

 

A few more pics. I am wondering if this is gold.

 

it's aventurine, which is minute gold flecks mixed into the glass recipe.

 

Learned something new: know aventurine as a stone; did not realize the word was also used for a man made material.

 

There you go, crossover from glass collecting to jewellery again.

There's a nice article here: https://www.glassofvenice.com/avventurina_murano_glass.php

 

I did not mean the gold flakes. Meant metal holding together.

 

Ah, gotcha. Most likely to be brass.

 

Exactly.