New Member - Need Help with 2 signatures

[brenda]

I have two pieces of Murano art glass that I purchased on a trip to Murano Island in September 2001. I bought what I thought was pretty, but didn't really know the artists. I am now considering selling my Murano art glass, and I would like to try to understand its value. Identifying the signatures might be a good start.

Can anyone help??

[brenda]

I will try to upload pictures of the entire items if I can get my images small enough. The blue and purple piece of art glass is a sommerso vase, and the blue and green piece of art glass is a statue of a woman. When I was on Murano Island there was a huge, greater than life size statue pretty much the same as mine (which is much smaller), and it was called "The Shame".

I will try to upload pictures this weekend.

Thanks in advance for any help with the signatures .

[artifice]

HI Brenda and welcome l think you have 2 nice pieces of glass please show us the whole objects The first signature l think is likely to be Luigi Onesto Murano nearly always sommerso pieces in the regionof $400-$1000 retail.I cant remember the second signature at present it may come to me I am sure someone else will know it,Cliff

[TxSilver]

The second signature is two last names. Somebody and Tagliapietra. The Tagliapietra is written in the style of Andrea Tagliapietra. Now if we can only figure out who the person working with Andrea was.

[tam bam]

Wow, I dying over here to see the full pics of these pieces now!

Welcome Brenda!

tam bam

[brenda]

I am working on the images right now and promise to upload them as soon as possible today. Thank you all for your interest and assistance.

[brenda]

Here are the pictures. Sorry it took me a while. I have several pictures of each piece, and I have a few more pieces in addition to the two with signatures on the bottom. One (the tricolored dish) has a label on the bottom --- "Formia". The millefiori glass basket and the fish do not have labels nor signatures, however I am certain they are Murano glass, as I bought them in Murano . I cannot upload all photos at once, so they will come in batches of two.....and I have 15 photos in total. The glass sculpture of the woman ("The Shame") is 11 1/4 inches tall and weighs 8.5 pounds.

Thanks for the help with naming the artists.

[brenda]

The title of the sculpture of the woman is called "The Shame".

[brenda]

Here are the first 2 of the 5 pictures I have of the Sommerso vase. the vase is 9 3/4 inches tall and weighs 12.6 pounds.

[brenda]