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Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
peejyweejy:
This is a very unusual little piece. Very light - possibly soda glass - but it has a cranberry lustre wihich stops at the neck. Thought it might be for alchemy but I don't understand the ruffled neck or the colour. Not sure what it is, nor how hold - any ideas please?
malwodyn:
Probably a carafe - and might well have had a matching tumbler in the past. I've seen a somewhat similarly coloured decanter in the past.
It's the sort of thing you'd have had on your bedside table a hundred years ago...
Ivo:
it is more likely lampwork of recent manufacture, not a tumble-up or decanter but purely decorative. Where it was made is hard to say. Lampwork only requires a gas flame and preshaped rods so it is done literally everywhere. But Romania seems a likely candidate, they like their surface treatment. Alternatively, Lauscha (Thuringia) is the capital of decorative lampwork...
peejyweejy:
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
Ivo:
--- Quote from: peejyweejy on November 25, 2009, 04:43:50 PM ---Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
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In which case it is a perfume from north Africal missing its gilt stopperette.
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