Topic: Guilty as Charged!

[Connie]

Ivo made the comment in another thread about how Americans lablel any enameled glass Moser  :lol:  Ok - I admit I am gulty as charged  :oops:

But in my defense since joining this board I am questioning some of my attributions and trying to work through them and correct or update them.

Here is the Questionable vase

I don't know what happened to the photos - they look like they have been lightened    The 3 pink glass handles have gold? flecks in them.  It is very fine dust not the larger bits like aventurine.

[Ivo]

That is a lovely vase, well made, well finished, nicely balanced - and absolutely consistent with the end of the 19th century style. But I couldn't possibly tell you who made it.  

[Frank]

Mix one part aventurine glass with twenty parts clear of a similar coefficient. Or dilute to taste, stir and pour.

(Theory)

[Connie]

Frank - I don't understand your comment  :?  :?:

Could you please elaborate?

[Frank]

Aventurine is a glass with metallic sorts in suspension... sooo, add more clear  glass for gold dusty look.

[Ivo]

Nice try Frank but it has been said here before, you cannot "dilute" Aventurine in a batch of molten glass because it burns and you end up with a gritty looking dull piece with no sparkle. If you want a sprinkle of gold, you'll have to marver in gold dust.

[Leni]

But presumably if you want a 'sprinkling' of aventurine, you blow the glass out more, so that it is more widely spread?  :?

A bit like the way the Universe is expanding so that the stars are getting further apart  :shock:  :oops:  :roll:  

Er ....

Leni

[Connie]

I will try to get better pictures of the vase including the handles this weekend.