Clear round vase with white swirls?

[Otis Orlando]

This bowl in it's simplicity looks very nice displayed.  The bowl measures 17cm in height, 2.6cm dia. at top and 6cm dia. to base.  There is a 3.5cm polished pontil, concaved.  Can anyone please provide originator and age.  Many thanks!  

[Greg.]

seen a few of these around over the last year or so, saw one on ebay a few weeks back attributed to whitefriars, although really not sure that is accurate or not.

[Greg.]

Otis: His another one on ebay: Item number: 120540580084

Still not convinced by these, nor is the seller from their description!

Anyway, something to mull over.

Greg

[mrs vulture]

 HI, I'm sure these have been discussed before, as many people confuse them with Whitefriars lamp bases. They were sold by Woolworths, I have two myself and I like them whoever made them!!!!       Cheryl

[johnphilip]

Yes Woolies loads around .

[glassobsessed]

Bowl?

[buttonfluff]

I  have to say i have an identical one but with purple swirls and the pic of the woolworths base wasnt quite the same as mine ,,whitefriars spirals  dont go up as far to the top so have deff outruled that ,,have seen them as a webb lamp  base somewhere or been told ,still not sure exacly what mine is ?!  Otis do your spirals stand out to the touch?? lovley pieces of glass in my opion wherever its made -i treasure mine

[buttonfluff]

Have to add yours looks a yellow tinge ,,mines clear

[Lustrousstone]

The purple swirl ones are everywhere also. Modern and Poland I suspect.

[vidrioguapo]

I have a purple one on my Wannabee blog with the Woolworths label.  I think they cost about £7.99 at the time.

[mrs vulture]

HI, I have one with a bright red stripe and one with a mid blue stripe      Cheryl

[Otis Orlando]

Bowl . . . Erm . . . Vase . . ?  Whatever it is, I must say it looks very nice.   I have looked on Ebay GBarfoot and I am definitely confused as to the originator.  There is a good possibility that they were bought in Woolworths.  It is rather unfortunate that I can't go and ask them.  No buttonfluff,  the swirls on mine feel like they are melted into the glass whilst when in it's maulten state.  The swirls do go to the top but only reach 1.7cm before the base line.  I have attached pictures of a similar bowl/vase that bares resemblance but however has a different finish on top and bottom.  The swirls on the red vase/bowl do not reach the top but,however reach the base into the concave polished pontil.  As you can see the pontil is totally off centred to the base.   You can actually feel the swirls and physically see that they stand prominent only on the base nearer the pontil.  I must say that the clear bowl/vase, especially paying attention to the pontil, looks very similar to the base of other Whitefriars pieces I currently have.  When you look through the pontil the magnification of the top becomes smaller and also the pontil is more central.   I hope this info. can be of help.  Thanks to those that have contributed to my post.  Time and effort is surely appreciated.  There is so much variations of this particular piece and makes it difficult to identify.  Just to let you know buttonstuff, mine is clear, just poor lighting.  

[Otis Orlando]

Hi Emmi, I have looked at the one on your website under wannabies and do see similarities.  The only difference and concerns appears to be the base area.  In your picture the base is flat. No.15: TRAILED GLASS .  On my clear trailed vase the pontil is polished but on the red trailed, it is machined and uneven within the pontil area and then polished.  It is extremely hard to determine who made what.  

[chriscooper]

Saw one of these with purple trailing about 4 or 5 years ago for a tenner at a carboot only to see them in Woolworth's a couple of weeks later for £5.99 in Mauve, White and I think? Blue trailing, pretty sure the one on Emmi blog will have a ground out polished pontil beneath the paper label. If I remember David Fletcher acquired this one to try and prove once and for all they are not Whitefriars, has they were appearing regular on ebay and buyers were being duped into paying good money for them thinking they were Whitefriars. Trust me I have handled both and as in per Richards comparison photo on the blog there really is no comparison. It is just a cheap and cheerful modern imported piece of glass but as long as you like and didn't pay too much then enjoy it for what it is.
Not sure about the Red one in your photo though.
Chris

[vidrioguapo]

Most of us who have commented on here have seen and handled these Woolworths vases.  They all have an indented pontil and the one on my blog does too and shows the edge of it to the right of the label.  Although they display well enough, they are not at all like any of the Whitefriars trailed vases and on my Wannabee blog, there are photos of almost all the shapes in trailed vases that were made by Whitefriars.  I have no idea what your red with white trailing vase is but I do know it is not Whitefriars.