PLEASE SEE (PHOTO 11) FOR AN IMAGE IN THE PINA SEGUSO BOOK OF THE LARGE BOWL. THE LARGE BOWL HAS NO DAMAGE OTHER THAN A FEW INSIDE AND UNDERSIDE SCRATCHES, BUT DOES HAVE A FEW LARGE UNBROKEN BUBBLES (as shown in arrows in photo 8) AS WELL AS A FEW INSTANCES OF THE BLACK "CARBON" DIRT THAT GETS INTO THESE BLOWN GLASS PIECES SOMETIMES. ONE SIDE BOWL HAS THE SEGUSO "MADE IN MURANO ITALY" ROUND SCALLOPED LABEL (MOST OF IT) AND ANOTHER SMALLER BOWL HAS A PARTIAL LABEL. KEEP IN MIND THAT THESE BOWLS ARE IN THE 70 YEAR OLD RANGE.
1- THE MAIN BOWL has no label. It weighs in at 5 pounds 7 ounces. This bowl has surface scratching on the bottom where it laid on a table. With the clear glass blobs (very well known to Archimede Seguso collectors) it is 7.5" wide. Please see (PHOTO 11) which is located on page 95 of Leslie Pina's Archimede Seguso Lace & Stone book. The piece is described as bullicante with clear blobs on the exterior and 7 inches wide and nearly 3 inches tall. This is the same bowl but in green. The exterior amazingly has no visible scratches, impact fractures, chips or flea bites. I ran my hand all around the exterior and found nothing wrong. The polished plinth has surface scratches. The interior of this bowl has a few elongated bubbles that have not broken through the surface. There are several individual scratches on the interior of the bowl that can be seen if closely inspected and can be felt. (PHOTO 5) is the best photo I have to show them. Most of these scratches are on the underside but the red arrow points to a couple that are inside of the bowl. The blue arrows point to elongated bubbles while the yellow arrow points to a carbon spot and the red arrow points to two scratches inside of the bowl. The scratches to the right of the reflection of my light bulb are actually on the underside of the bowl. . Maybe someone used it to throw their keys into. Because of the heavy bullicante style, they are difficult to see but they are there. There are also at least three "carbon" spots, I don't really know what to call them. They are black bits of burnt glass. Two of the three are under the surface and a bump can be felt in the glass. The third is in the surface and you can feel both a bump and a tiny spot of roughness. I have had this for a decade and never noticed until I had to pull out the magnifying glass to make certain I was not misleading in the description. (PHOTO 5,6,7,8) show the larger bowl bottom, top and sides, misleadingly small. (PHOTO 9) shows four of the black carbon marks I refer to on the inside. The third red arrow down is the one you can feel as rough while the others are bumps under the glass surface. In terms of size, the longest is about 1/8" long. (PHOTO 11) shows a couple of the elongated bubbles. The longest of those is at least a quarter inch.
2- THE THREE SMALLER BOWLS. I am not certain that all three belonged with this bowl originally as one has a slightly darker green and the bullicante bubbles are closer together. That is the one with the small partial label and is also the one with a small exterior impact mark. The other two have no exterior damage I could find with eyes, magnifier or fingertips. There are imperfections in the bubbles. One of these two has the majority of the round scalloped Seguso "Made in Murano Italy" label (PHOTO 3). Each of the small bowls weighs between 1 lb 1 ounce and 1lb 2 ounces. At their longest, they are approximately 3.75" wide and 1.75" deep. (PHOTO 2 & 3) are the small bowls top and bottom. (PHOTO 4) arrow points to impact mark on small bowl
It is fairly easy to come by the smaller Seguso blob bowls. They are usually about five inches wide but the difference when comparing one of those to this is tremendous. PLEASE NOTE THAT (PHOTO 12) INCLUDES A MEDIUM SIZED BOWL THAT IS FIVE INCHES WIDE SITTING NEXT TO THE LARGER BOWL I AM SELLING HERE. THE SMALLER BOWL IN (PHOTO 12) IS NOT PART OF THIS AUCTION. IT IS INCLUDED IN THE IMAGE SOLELY TO SHOW THAT THE BOWL IN THIS AUCTION COULD PROBABLY SWALLOW THE STANDARD SEGUSO BLOB BOWL. I do apologize that it had to be the same color and I don't mean to confuse. In that photo, the smaller bowl is 5 inches wide than the larger is 7 inches wide. BIG DIFFERENCE despite the apparent minimal size difference in terms of measurement.
THE DISH ON THE LEFT SIDE OF (PHOTO 12), WITH THE ARROWS AND THE STATEMENT THAT "THIS DISH NOT IN AUCTION" IS NOT IN THE AUCTION. I am sorry for overstating it but "you have no idea" what goes on with bidders who don't read.
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INSPECT ALL PHOTOS. If you require more information, please ask. I have tried to squeeze as much as I could into my twelve photos. Keep in mind that I had these for over a dozen years and never noticed any of the flaws but, as a purchaser, I would want to know. With everything I described, only the underside scratches, the interior scratches in the large bowl and the tiny impact mark on the side of one small bowl reflect anything post-production.
The glass weighs in over 9 pounds and boxing will require SOME VERY CAREFUL PACKING done.