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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tagsale_notes, post: 13148309, member: 115485&quot;]No photos came through on my end, might be worth re-attaching a close up of the base and the inclusion patch.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few things I&#039;d check before settling on Ferro e Figlio. The matte acid finish is the part that makes me pause. Most 1880s Murano I&#039;ve seen is glossy, and acid satin finishes show up a lot more on 1920s-30s pieces, both Italian and Bohemian (the Kralik and Welz type stuff did green bodies with colored frit patches too). A rough snapped pontil tells you it was hand blown, not so much when.</p><p><br /></p><p>For documentation, the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass has an Ask a Librarian form and they will dig through period trade catalogs for free. That&#039;s about the only place I know that can actually tie a shape to a specific 19th century Murano firm, since attribution between Ferro, Salviati and the Toso family gets loose fast.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also worth searching sold lots on LiveAuctioneers for Murano 19th century with aventurine or chalcedony and seeing if any cataloged Ferro pieces have that handle shape. And get a sharp photo of those scratched numbers on the base, sometimes that&#039;s an old dealer or collection inventory number that can be traced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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