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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: glassobsessed on September 19, 2010, 03:50:38 PM
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I am trying to id this vase for a friend and ideas would be welcome. The quality feels good, very wide shallow polished pontil mark and it stands almost 11 inches or 27 cm high.
Any help with the title would be appreciated too. Pink cased striped weird beaky vase perhaps? ;D
Thanks.
John
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John, are the striped engraved onto the glass or are they stripes within the glass? I can't quite make it out.
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Can we get a photo of the base as well, please.
Ross
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The stripes are within the glass - very precise and evenly spaced, if you look towards the base you can see them curling within the clear casing. This is the only photo of the vase that I have, the friend in question is a little technophobic (well a lot really) and as he lives some considerable distance from me the chances of getting any more images for a month or so are minimal.
The shape of the vase is somewhat organic and plant like but my first impression on seeing it was a chick in the nest demanding food from it's parents, hence the beak description.
John
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This is a photo (see attached)I took of Ebay yonks ago for my own education/benefit.
I think it is very like your vase. I wondered why yours seems familiar.
However, I would expect the vase to have 'Kosta LHxxxx' on the base where xxxx is a number.
Ross
Moderator: eBay image removed under board's copyright policy
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Lindstrand was in my mind too when I first saw the stripes but the lack of markings, the colour and the shape make me think it was likely 'inspired by' Lindstrand.
John
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The colour and the way the stripes are suspended in the glass remind me of a pink one I posted a few weeks ago. It makes me think Czech maybe?
m
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I'm afraid the colouring and substantial-ness had me thinking.... TKMaxx.... Chinese, or perhaps Polish.
Don't wish to rain on anybody's parade, and perhaps my dislike of pink/cranberry really doesn't help my judgement.
(the beakie bits look more like an electric cattle-prod to me.)
:-[ :wsh:
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Quality is way to good for TK Maxx glass.
I am beginning to lean towards one of the 'smaller' Scandinavian makers. Page 117 Scandinavian Glass Fire and Sea has a handful of Sea Glasbruk vases illustrated, this vase would sit comfortably next to them. Other options according to the book are Glimma Glasbruk, Smalandshyttan, Skruf and Johansfors.
John
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I've had pieces of exceptional quality from TKMaxx, John. :P
Caithness, Krosno, Tarnowiec, Beranek..... and the Chinese stuff is getting better all the time.
But you've handled it, I'm sure you're right. (but I think it's just horrid. :-X )
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I have seen this shape vase before, as a friend bought one in an antique mall in Seattle and showed it to me. It had definite age wear and is quality glass, so I would not look too far from where you are for origins. His was shorter than the dimensions you give, but identical shape, decor and colors. It was also unsigned. I did locate, at that time, an attribution on Great-Glass.co.uk which attributes it as unsigned Hadeland. It is the only image of the piece I have ever located or seen, until I saw yours. I do not know the accuracy of the attribution, but here is a link to the page it is on. I would comment that there are attribution errors in the "Austro-Bohemian" section..... so the same may be true on the Scandinavian pages..... but it is the same piece....
http://www.great-glass.co.uk/library/lib5a.htm
Craig
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Oddly, in following another post, I came across the following link. 7th topic down the page is the same shape/color vase. They are also looking for an ID I believe, but they do comment that the base is marked DEK 525. Maybe that will point in the right direction....
http://www.precisensan.com/antikforum/showthread.php?t=8311
Craig
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Craig, you are a star! Two examples as well. :hiclp:
In the following post it is claimed that DEK is an abbreviation for Dekor Etsning Kosta or (in English) Decorative Etching Kosta - apparently a forerunner to Sea Glasbruk.
Very interesting.
John
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I have to be really honest here.... the first one, now seeming more likely than ever to be an incorrect attribution.... :thup: is only because I seem to have a really good visual memory for things I see like this (most of the time) when I see them. When I saw this example I remembered where I had seen the picture before....
It is my memory that has really helped me with my research through the years.....
The second example, the marked one.... was pure and simple dumb luck..... :huh:
Thanks though.... "Star" does sound better...... :thup:
Craig
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If you google "goose neck vase" there's also a nice example at :
http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2715 (http://www.modernistglass.com/glasspieces/view/2715)
Best Regards
Emil
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Thanks Emile, so it seems a design originally made by DEK that I assume they continued when they merged and become Sea Glasbruk.
Thanks again everyone!
John