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Title: Gulvvase
Post by: johnphilip on January 19, 2012, 04:57:50 PM

What's the base finish on the Gulvvase please , does it have a pontil or am i correct in thinking not ?

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: flying free on January 19, 2012, 05:04:23 PM

I had a turquoise uncased one, no pontil mark.  But I don't know if that is always the case.  I thought they didn't have  :-\
m

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: rocco on January 19, 2012, 05:11:14 PM

Mine (https://picasaweb.google.com/107330317087089352634/Scandinavian?authkey=Gv1sRgCNy85ueHjuiBXw#5617618525897912146) -- no pontil mark whatsoever, smooth, slightly indented base.

Michael

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: dirk. on January 19, 2012, 05:35:12 PM

None of several I handled had a pontil mark.  :)

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: johnphilip on January 19, 2012, 05:38:39 PM

Thanks guys  just as i thought ,  they are holding one for me at the local charity shop .

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: Paul S. on January 19, 2012, 10:25:09 PM

Just a little info John - courtesy of Miller's - should it be of use.

I believe that the cased opaque two coloured examples are the most sought after - with red over white heading the list, possibly  -  and remember that with these things size does count ;)    Transparent colours included cobalt blue, brown and olive green.      However - and something I didn't know - is that these things were also made in the UK, during the late 1970's,  by a company called Cascade Glass (?)  -  in colours of:  kingfisher blue,colourless, pewter grey and smokey topaz.      Needless to say the British examples fetch only a fraction of the Danish/Brauer pieces.

Do you recall the colour of the charity shop example?? 

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: flying free on January 19, 2012, 10:30:56 PM

Paul there is more information on the board somewhere about the pieces produced at Cascade to the Brauer design.    I think Nic did a very good explanation somewhere.  I hope I remembered that right :-\
m

Title: Re: Gulvase
Post by: Paul S. on January 19, 2012, 10:48:29 PM

thanks m  -  I'm a great advocate of the Board's search facility, usually  -  but I was being impatient, and remembered that I had some of this information in a book which was to hand.    However, to be honest, I did not know we had a good input from Nic  -  so thanks for that.      I did once have two or three of these vases, but have now parted with them, but they do look good, and hopefully still fetch reasonable money.

Title: Re: Gulvvase
Post by: Pinkspoons on January 20, 2012, 10:39:16 AM

It's okay - I supplied the Miller's info too.  :24: Although, typically, the small details got a little distorted en route to press.

But, yup, no pontil marks is standard. Although, from memory, a lot of the copyists are similarly finished.

Title: Re: Gulvvase
Post by: johnphilip on January 20, 2012, 11:04:07 AM

Well not much risk at three quid .

Title: Re: Gulvvase
Post by: kane_u_pain on January 20, 2012, 10:25:21 PM

Jealous at 3 quid  :mrgreen:...I had to pay $330 for mine, which seems to be the average price in Aussie dollars for these. Good score jp.