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Author Topic: Vintage Handblown Iridescent Carafe Pitcher Ewer HELP  (Read 502 times)

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Offline Moonstonelover21

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Vintage Handblown Iridescent Carafe Pitcher Ewer HELP
« on: August 01, 2014, 07:52:39 PM »
I would love any information on this pitcher....it stands 5.75" and paper thin and light.

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Vintage Handblown Iridescent Carafe Pitcher Ewer HELP
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2014, 08:16:36 PM »
From the look of the base and from your description (paper thin and light) I would think this is lampwork.

It might be very difficult to find an attribution, lampwork does not require a studio or big expensive pots of molten glass, just a gas cylinder and a blow torch sort of thing.
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Re: Vintage Handblown Iridescent Carafe Pitcher Ewer HELP
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2014, 06:51:24 AM »
Marsberger from Bad Driburg, Germany I think.

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