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Title: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: glasskillian on June 12, 2012, 04:08:33 PM
One of a pair i got from a local antiques fair while bargain hunt was being filmed.
They are the most unusual colour im not up on vaseline and opal's colour's but im thinking it might be blue opal as it has a definate blue hue in light but more of a orangey colour out of the daylight. My initial feeling was stuart but the ones ive owned have all been clear with green trails or green on green so im also keeping my options open i was hoping of a powell attribution....
They measure 10.5cm tall 7.7cm accross the base 10cm accross the top which has 6 ruffles the base has a small central well finished poished ponti scar.
Thanks for looking....
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: keith on June 12, 2012, 04:18:49 PM
Hello,got one very similar,I believe they may be Stuart ;D
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: glasskillian on June 12, 2012, 04:27:35 PM
 ;D Thanks keith ive never seen stuart one's in vaseline though??
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 12, 2012, 06:13:54 PM
Blue opal is not uranium and those are
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: Paul S. on June 12, 2012, 06:44:13 PM
nice piece :)  -  Keith, are you basing your provenance on the similarish example in Gulliver - page 121??          In the book the description is given as ...pale turquoise body with opalescent trails..........no mention of vaseline though.       It looks as though this example may not have quite the same body colour as in the book, but otherwise has a lot in common. :)
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: keith on June 12, 2012, 06:52:45 PM
Paul,those and the one at the bottom of the previous page which is the same shape as mine ;D
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 12, 2012, 07:09:29 PM
Mervyn never mentions vaseline, assuming you mean uranium, and never gives an attribution unless he has documentation to back it up. Are these actually uranium? They look like it. I agree with Keith's attribution though.
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: Paul S. on June 12, 2012, 07:15:58 PM
I only made reference to the word vaseline, as this was used earlier in the thread, although I appreciate this is not how uranium glass is described in the U.K.        To my eyes, this piece looks opalescent but not uranium - although I could of course be wrong.    Time to get the torch out. :)
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: keith on June 12, 2012, 08:04:04 PM
Mine is uv reactive ;D
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: Paul S. on June 12, 2012, 09:05:03 PM
thanks Keith, then quite probably this one is also.         Must admit I'm not a fan of the word 'vaseline', when used as a substitute for uranium, although it occurs to me it might have been used simply to describe the colour (instead of opalescent) - since they look similar.
However, a very nice pair of vases.

p.s.    crunch, munch, nibble............that's me eating my words. ;)
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: glasskillian on June 12, 2012, 09:36:06 PM
 :o
Thanks very much for digging into this item with me i guess my use of vaseline isnt spot on with these, I have no means to test at present but imagine they are uranium content and would glow, It does sit quite nicely too that they are a stuart model they seem very much similar too Keith's lovely vase hoping to sell on on ebay but with prices depressed not too sure.. I realise glass messages isnt the antiques raodshow but would an estimate of £100=£150 for the two vases in mint condition seem reasonable??
thankyou for the response ;D
Title: Re: Nice art-nouveau vaseline stuart vase possibly powell????
Post by: nigel benson on July 03, 2012, 11:27:10 AM
Hello,

Vaseline has indeed been used to desribe the colour effect over the years. It's changing/ed because of the tendancy nowadays to apply it to the use of Uranium - mainly come over from the USA. Opalescent is now becoming the word referring to the colour as you suggest Paul. Stuart - yes ;)

Nigel