Excellent video. It's been my understanding that the Chinese makers purchase the glass supplies from Murano, so they technically can label their items as being made out of authentic Murano materials, but the actual manufacturing is done in China. This is also an issue for glass beads used in jewelry making, which similarly have questionable labels, and authentic Murano glass beads are highly prized, and priced accordingly.
Although it isn't a murano, I have one of the frogs and love it so much! You've also helped me identify my most recent paperweight as a murano so thank you!
I have about 50 to 60 paperweights like this. I have been collecting for ten years now. They have been boxed away and forgotten until now. Now I want to revisit them and sell them.
Chinese millifiore looks surprisingly good. There is also a Japanese Murano workshop actually set up in Venice. Guess millifiore is an art form practiced by different craftsmen.
Great video. Thanks for doing this. I'm just getting started so this is helpful. It's so hard to find good info on paperweights and seeing what is fake.
Although mine isn’t a Murano it’s still very precious to me because it was given to me a Christmas present from an older cousin that was more like a second grandmother to me
Thank you. Well done. I have one the same as the murano on the left red white and blue which I've been told is Chinese. It looks so much like yours there. Polished base but with imperfections in the base.
Thank you for the informative video! Seems I have had an eye for cheaply done Millefiori and well done. First thing I look for is bubbles topside. Them I look at how the base of the canes were cut. I have a couple of Chinese Millefiori paperweights, but they are well above the $29.99 eBay ones, which I purchased one recently to study the structure. And now you mentioned the colors, it is extremely obvious combined with some other observations. That said, I still have respect for well done Chinese Millefiori paperweights. They don't have the prestige of Italian glass, but some Chinese Millefiori paperweights look extremely well done. The clarity of the crystal used is also something I look for, and the uniformity of the canes. Unless it is a carpet of geometric shaped canes. I've just one example of that style, and the Murano sticker got lost during a move, being in a hot moving truck, the sticker probably got stuck in the box. Unpacked so much I wouldn't have thought to look. Thank you again for the video! These are my favorite style, though I have many styles. Only have eight Mille or so at the moment.
Sister-Dear-Heart-Love! Had you any idea that Paul Ysart makes miniature half-dome Murano style men's cufflinks mounted in silver???!!! He does, he does! And they are STUNNING. Heaven help me, I'm spiraling down a bottomless glass paperweight fetish-hole, LOL
I have one with a flower in it , the flower has 5 points with glass balls on each tip and a large glass ball in middle, Its really Beautiful, I would like to know where it came from..!
I have the exact same small yellow,blue and red paperweight. Thanks for making me realise mine is fake😭 Hahaa na honestly thankyou.gutted but I kind of knew it was fake but now I’m fully aware
Tiny holes can come from manufacture. Also they can appear when a paperweight has been sanded on the base (for restoration) and it reveals bubble holes. Otherwise, the paperweight would show etching in a particular shape which helps to ID
Murano isn't overpriced. Think of the work that goes into just the millefiori before completion.They're made from colored rods that are gathered in a bundle, stretched, and then cut. They might need hundreds of them in one paperweight. And the clear portion is made from lead crystal.
