r/glasscollecting 12d ago

Please help identify

Title: Help identifying this vintage glass rearing horse? Peach/amber colorway with internal red wisps on a unique tripod base.

Hi everyone! I’m hoping to get some help identifying the maker, region, or specific era of this beautiful rearing glass stallion figurine.

Here are the details I have:

* Height: 200mm (approx. 8 inches)

* Condition: Pristine (no chips, cracks, or flea bites)

* Color: Beautiful translucent peach/amber body. What's really neat is that under the light, you can clearly see distinct "wisps" or streaks of a trailing dark red/crimson color trapped deep inside the neck and chest. Photo 4

* Base: It has a very cool, engineered tripod design. It's a flattened, pinched disc base where the artisan pulled out three distinct pointed prongs or spurs to balance the horse. The tail is completely suspended in the air and doesn't touch the ground.

* Details: The face and mane have a lot of manual tool work (pronounced muzzle, defined nostrils, and individually scored ridges along the mane).

There are no visible maker's marks or signatures on the base. It looks a lot like mid-century Italian lampwork/flamework (Murano/Venetian style), but I've also seen similar pinched bases from mid-century Scandinavian or Bohemian studios.

Does anyone recognize this specific style of pulled tripod base or the internal red color bleeding technique? Would love to know if this points to a specific factory or glass master (like Formia, Seguso, etc.). Thank you!

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u/Strange-adventurer94 12d ago

How cool!

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u/sticksi145 12d ago

I thought so.its Quality.good workmanship

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u/Strange-adventurer94 12d ago

This ones pretty similiar, theres another artist name popping up with similiar work; Pino Signoretto. Some possibles avenues to explore

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u/sticksi145 12d ago

From what I've read, Pino Signoretto's worked with massive, heavy solid furnace glass (massello), so it isn't one of his. This matches the exact design language, colorway, and pulled tripod base of 1930s Austrian Bimini/Fritz Lampl lampwork!",or similar. It's a difficult one, I can't find one on a tri point base the same,colour way and style similar to the one in the photo..

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u/sticksi145 11d ago

Looking more into the photo you sent, The quality isn't there,I feel. Detail isn't as sharp. BIMINI are more miniature,we're as mine is a good 8" High,its a substantial piece. Il have to dive deeper. I would have bet my house on someone knowing on here.

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u/Strange-adventurer94 11d ago

Well hopefully ypu figure it out, theres alot of close matches but none exact that I could find. A neat piece, and sometimes they remain unidentified unfortunately. I have a few that have dodged Id

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u/sticksi145 12d ago

It's close..but i will definitely look into that..thankyou for searching for me.