Topic: Bulb (?) Vase with Celery Handle

[Pinkspoons]

This one is going back a while - I posted this vase way back in Nov 2005, but it never got a reply, so I thought I'd chance my arm again with a new photograph.

I think it's another crocus vase... maybe... as the opening is around 25mm. 165mm tall and 130mm diameter. The glass is very bubbly and old-looking, but I'm not sure if it has any actual age to it. My own stab in the dark would be 1950s/60s, probably English. But... this really isn't my area and I'm probably completely wrong!

VASE

Hopefully someone will have more of a clue. Thanks in advance.

[Lustrousstone]

Any pontil mark? How is the top finished?

[Pinkspoons]

No pontil, beveled and polished rim.

[Lustrousstone]

So probably mould blown then. The handle looks very Victorian in style. Can we have a full-on view please  . Not that I'm demanding or anything

[Pinkspoons]

I'll take a few more detailed snaps tomorrow - this one was really just an afterthought in the midst of photographing a load of new stock. 

[Pinkspoons]

Oops, doing the photos totally slipped my mind!

Handle 1
Handle 2
Base
Ground/Polished Rim

[Lustrousstone]

Thanks Nic, don't think it's a Victorian handle, more an updated version of one. Don't have any answer though

[Pinkspoons]

No, I would have been very surprised if it had turned out to be a Victorian piece. Reminds me a lot of the handles that Whitefriars were using for their decorative jugs (although this piece isn't Whitefriars) which is why my initial guess was 1950s-60s.

But thanks for looking anyway. 

[Lustrousstone]

It was more a case of seeing if the handle was the same as the Thomas Webb Victorian variant than thinking it was Victorian.

[Pinkspoons]

Just giving this thread a quick kick up the... *bump*