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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: vidfletch on March 01, 2006, 10:41:36 AM

Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: vidfletch on March 01, 2006, 10:41:36 AM: Is this vase below by RIIHIMÄEN LASI? Has that look about it.

http://img75.imageshack.us/img75/2108/tamaraaladinpossibly8cb.jpg

Thanks.

Vidfletch :D
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: aa on March 01, 2006, 10:45:59 AM: From the photo, the rim looks as if it has been fire-polished, rather than flat ground and polished. Is there a punty mark?
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 01, 2006, 02:47:37 PM: I've one of these - Ivo guessed that it was Elme Glasbruk, but couldn't be sure. Another suggestion was possibly Taube of Germany. THREAD (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,4343.0.html)

Mine has a foil label on the bottom that just says 'Foreign', which discounts Riihimaen.

Didn't they (Riihimaen) have 'Finncristal' labels on their export pieces?
Title: Post subject
Post by: vidrioguapo on March 01, 2006, 03:54:33 PM: This looks like the Pompadour vase by Nanny Still for Riihimaen Lasi Oy.
Should be 9 inches high. regards Emmi
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Della on March 01, 2006, 04:08:59 PM: It does resemble Pompadour, but it isn't the same.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/jost/pompadour.htm
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Post by: vidrioguapo on March 01, 2006, 04:30:42 PM: No it doesn't look the same - Miller's Collectables 2006 page 325 must be wrong then???? They have one described as Pompadour which is exactly like Davids.
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Della on March 01, 2006, 05:58:52 PM: Hi Emmi,
I have to be honest, my first reaction was that it was Pompadour. I have one somewhere :roll: in a box.

I didn't mean for my reply to appear so abrupt, but I was in the middle of something and hurridly gave a reply. My apologies. :oops:
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Post by: vidrioguapo on March 01, 2006, 06:13:43 PM: It's Ok Della, I didn't take it in that way at all. I think I'll stop buying Millers books from now on though - there are often errors - I reported one to them recently on a Whitefriars vase they had wrongly described!!!
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: vidfletch on March 02, 2006, 01:17:38 AM: Thanks for the replies. Sorry to take so long to come back. I have had to drag my wife off the PC! She has been hogging it ALL day doing non-glass unimportant nonsense!!!

I will investigate more myself and see what I come up with.

Vidfletch :D
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Ivo on March 02, 2006, 07:22:05 AM: (http://i2.tinypic.com/ou87xz.jpg)
I've been struggling with the ID of this one. It is clearly not Pompadour and to the feel (how unaccurate and subjective is that!) it is Finnish - so for the moment I think it might be Kaj Franck- or one of his collaborators because the exact shape is not in the Designlasin Hintakirja.
I think that somewhere in the seventies all glass factories made a version of it because there was a demand.
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Della on March 02, 2006, 02:24:19 PM: Quote
Didn't they (Riihimaen) have 'Finncristal' labels on their export pieces?

Yes, they did. I have a Pala vase with a Finncristal label on it.
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 02, 2006, 02:28:38 PM: *phew*

Not just me inventing things in my head, then! :lol:
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: David555 on March 03, 2006, 03:02:43 AM: Pinkspoons - well spotted ref the eBay auction

Good thread link. Two of the vases are exactly the same as one this post is about. I have owned these in varying shapes over the years

(http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/479/ambercopy6cl.th.jpg) (http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ambercopy6cl.jpg)

After seeing an advert Ivo showed on this forum I agree with him 'Elme Glasbruk' - I think these could be a good investment when information and labelled items by Elme starts appearing (like in Miller's :roll: )

I think the guy selling the items says maybe Holmegaard - why not maybe Riihimaen - ref this discussion - ah well LOL

Adam P
Title: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Pinkspoons on March 03, 2006, 10:53:04 AM: Quote from: "David555"
I think the guy selling the items says maybe Holmegaard - why not maybe Riihimaen - ref this discussion - ah well LOL

Unfortunately Holmegaard has become the keyword to have for brightly coloured cased glass on eBay at the moment.

The 'FOREIGN' label from the bottom of my vase:

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/elme-vase.jpg)
(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b108/pinkspoons/elme-vase2.jpg)
Title: Re: RIIHIMÄEN LASI ???
Post by: Wayne on May 27, 2011, 08:12:54 AM: Just updating a couple of old threads about these vases, for anyone that comes across them when searching for an ID like I did once..

Turns out they are not Scandinavian or German, but Japanese, see here for one with a label:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39516.msg226141.html#msg226141 (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39516.msg226141.html#msg226141)