hello from new green aussie

[Picklebrain]

HI i have stumbled across your site and am so glad i did, i have been interested in glass now for some time and love the site.
I have a couple of pieces i would love to find out more about so i will continue scratching around and figure out how to post some pics. Hope someone here will have better luck than i have in identifying my pieces.
Ok the pics are loaded they are of a sculpture i guess you would call it. It is birds on a branch.
The branch is wood i dont know what sort of wood it is. All the birds are glass and fit onto the branch that has pins inserted. I have taken a photo of one of the birds to show how they attach.
There are 11 birds in total, and each one has a number etched in the bottom to correspond to the pin on the branch.
I can not find any other signitures or marks etc, they look like some other birds i have seen which are murano, but those ones are a lot smaller and are on a glass branch.
I bought this at an estate and couldnt find out much about it.
It is quite large as you can see by the bird i took of the branch.
Can anyone help me. Gee i hope so its driving me crazy hahha.
Thanks Picklebrain :D

[fossilfly]

Hey picklebrain, good to see an Aussie on the foums ;-)
Birds are a classic Murano subjuect, and you are correct in observing that most of the bird sculptures are mounted on a glass branch, or alternatively a glass nest or birdbath. I do not recall ever seeing ones mounted on a wood branch. Alsto stylistically, these arent classic Murano birds in color. I would bet that these are Murano inspired but not from Murano.

[Picklebrain]

Thanks for that fossilfly, that is interesting what you say. I also have not seen any birds on real branches but i did not know about the colors of the birds being different. Would be interesting to know exactly where it is from never the less.
Picklebrain

[eglass]

I'm interested to hear if anyone posts any answers about this bird/wood piece. I just LOVE those birds, they are absolutely beautiful!

Murano or not, I would have bought that in a heartbeat if I saw it here locally.

[tam bam]

I wonder if your birds on the branch is some kind of studio art piece. I think they are very interesting also. I do LOVE the colors. Thanks for sharing and welcome to this site. :cool:

tam bam

[annie04bell]

Hi, love the birds and it is unusual to see birds on a piece of wood. I am in the Coffs Harbour area and have been collecting for a number of years.

Regards,

Pam