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Author Topic: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell  (Read 8539 times)

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Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« on: July 23, 2012, 09:03:14 PM »
This is my third piece and therefore I have a collection :)
It's signed on the base and also has the label.  This work looks ethereal and delicate but it's sturdy and huge at 32cm high by 12-13cm diam at the base.
All engraved and with the most beautiful iridescence on the foot.
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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2012, 06:07:22 AM »
Lovely. Someone squashed it though

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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2012, 06:22:53 AM »
 :P - Whenever I look at it, it reminds me of both a snake charmer and a cobra bizarrely. 
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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2012, 06:24:50 AM »
I can see what you mean  ;)

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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2012, 07:05:22 AM »
It looks as though the snake charmer swallowed the cobra  ;D
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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2012, 11:40:31 AM »
The innocent-looking little couple are really into dark magic...... and have been making a chimera.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2012, 08:22:33 PM »
ooh spooky, that's grandma and grandpa you're talking about  ;D I'll never look at them in the same light again.
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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2012, 09:38:56 AM »
bumping this for Ivo and Dirk hopefully (and anyone else interested)

I didn't do a picture of the base of this and today when I was clearing around I picked it up and lo and behold....it looks like it was made from a bottle - wondering if you know from whence the bottle might have come...and in effect is this recycled glass then?
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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2012, 03:57:44 PM »
I double checked an old link and these bottles are on there.  They are recycled and then 'painted with lustre' and decorated.  Used bottles which he produced for 10years.
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http://www.beepworld.de/members4/gold/myindividuality.htm

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Re: Huge Vera Walther vase - show and tell
« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2012, 04:58:04 PM »
Sorry, been away...  ;D
Indeed this range was made from old (beer) bottles and I think they date from the 80´s;
some examples are signed with date.
Funny enough - the name of the range was ´cobra´.   8)
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