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Author Topic: Large heavy olive ovoid vase. Any Ideas of maker? = Caithness  (Read 1387 times)

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Offline CultureVulture

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Ovoid vase in olive green its 8.5inch tall 4.5 inch diameter at the widest. It weighs a hefty 860grams few ounce short of 2lb. Highly polished dimpled base. Photod with a supermarket 2ltre tall bottle of lemonade for better idea of scale.

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Re: Large heavy olive ovoid vase. Any Ideas of maker?
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2011, 06:20:41 AM »
Look like a Caithness barrel (4019) vase in Moss. Designed by Domnhall OBrion in 1961 and being produced well into the 2000s  in several sizes (Caithness Glass Mark Hill)

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Re: Large heavy olive ovoid vase. Any Ideas of maker?
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2011, 02:39:26 PM »
Looks very Caithness. :)
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Re: Large heavy olive ovoid vase. Any Ideas of maker?
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2011, 03:51:50 PM »
 :hi:
Another Caithness vote.  :thup: :thup: :thup:
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Re: Large heavy olive ovoid vase. Any Ideas of maker?
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2011, 06:35:21 PM »
Thanks to everyone :smg:

 

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