Beautiful UGLY Art Glass Help?

[Indian Steve]

I'm back digging through the pile in the basement, sorting & pulling out junk to yard sale or let my wife ebay. I remember thinking how cool these looked when i bought them and now I'm wondering if i was off my meds that day. They are handmade with funky colors and some sort of metalic flakes. The bases are ground. They are around 10 inches by 8 inches. Do any of you Masters of Knowledge have any idea what to call them or a maker, style, etc. or was i off my meds that day? thanks in advance!

 

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[ToddsPoint]

Definitely ebay material. Gary

 

[ARC]

Murano candy dish.

And might be more precisely called an ...

Murano "end of day glass".

This is called this because at the end of the artists day he / she takes the bits of leftover glass and makes a few final pieces.

 

[Tpmetal]

they are nothing more than artglass decorative bowls/platters sometime also called rondels. "Murano glass" they are not. What most people don't get is all that Murano glass means is glass made in Murano. Most likely these are just some American glass artists "bread and butter" sales. by that I mean pieces that were made quick and fast to make cash, usually they refuse to associate their name with these types of pieces. I can tell you they were not that skilled if both have those pock marks from the punty. a skilled glass worker knows not to fuse that punty on so hard, and it rarely takes chunks out for them. the fact both of these have those marks means either the artist gave zero f's about making them or was just plain not skilled. Also high end glass artist would have ground those pock marks into polished round concave lenses if it was a piece they cared about. So nothing special but still hand blown glass and sellable.

 

[Plug N Play]

Your wife thought these would look good in a box in the basement.
She knows her stuff.
Let her sell them.

 

[Indian Steve]

Thanks to everyone for the help and thanks especially for not one comment about me being off my meds. I've got $4 in them. Maybe I'll make a profit.

 

[Georgivs]

I would call them Murano style glass. Absent signatures, stickers, or markings it's impossible to say for sure they are Murano. That's not to say they couldn't be however, the bad pontil mark is not a good sign, definitely not something you would see from a master. I come from a family of glassblowers and have gone to dozens of retail/wholesale shows.

 

[Red-Coat]

We've had several holidays in Venice. The larger hotels have their own private speedboat launches in which they will take you to the airport for free and they also offer free trips to the Murano islands. No such thing as a free lunch of course... they have an arrangement with one of the glass factories, which is where you will be deposited (exit via the gift-shop). The pieces from these factories are high quality and signed, but you can find essentially the same things (as copies) elsewhere which are not to the same quality, at much lower prices and not signed.

We found the biggest selection and the keenest prices in the shops and markets on the island of Burano, which you can get to under your own steam by a 45 minute trip on the water-bus service.

 

[Tpmetal]

I would call them Murano style glass. Absent signatures, stickers, or markings it's impossible to say for sure they are Murano. That's not to say they couldn't be however, the bad pontil mark is not a good sign, definitely not something you would see from a master. I come from a family of glassblowers and have gone to dozens of retail/wholesale shows.

Murano is not a style of glass. The style of glass historically from Murano is Venetian. I am also a glass blower, that was my formal education. I now am the technician at one of the largest educational facilities in the country, I also happen to be just down the road from the best glass museum in the country(corning). Murano glass is just that glass that came from Murano, it does not describe a style of glass, just the location. The reason people want Murano glass is that is where traditionally all the best glass came from because they were so secretive about how they made stuff. In fact people who brought knowledge from Murano to America in the early glass game were ostracized from that glass community on the islands.

 

[DCMatt]

Murano candy dish.

That's an excellent description. I Googled (images) "Vintage Murano candy dish" and saw numerous similar examples.

This one says 1950's...