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Glass / Re: Help w ID / Date Glass Vase maybe Georgian
« Last post by Glassine on April 11, 2024, 06:14:10 AM »
Correction - a comment elsewhere is that Georgian glass often has a yellow tinge.  Another says that it's typically gray.  Depending on the view, this vase can be described both ways.  So I think those comments are not in conflict and in fact point to this being Georgian.

Very open to other thoughts :-)
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Glass / Re: Info on James Powell Topaz glass - "The Queen Victoria Topaz bowl"
« Last post by flying free on April 10, 2024, 11:24:55 PM »
For future reference just in case it becomes linked/important:
A uranium glass butter dish base c. late 1840s Rice, Harris Islington Glass
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,73283.0.html
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A green and white version of the blue ones you showed Cagney here:
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/free-blown-and-blown-molded-sawtooth-vase/

The foot on these is different to your shorter version.
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Sold for just over £27 on eBay with 5 bidders
oh.
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 :o  That has to be rare.
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Really interesting Cagney. Thank you for posting links.
The different colour blues on the same piece is strange to me:
 https://jeffreysevans.com/auction/free-blown-and-blown-molded-sawtooth-vase-with-rare-decoration-ball/

Other odd things that occur to me - the ball on this doesn't seem to 'go with' the piece:
https://jeffreysevans.com/auction/free-blown-and-blown-molded-sawtooth-vase-with-extremely-rare-decoration-ball/

And the domed foot - is that normal for Sandwich glass? Is it hollow I wonder?

Re Christine's vase - I would search French first I think, partly because of the green of the opaline and partly because the ribbed and dotted design on the body is something they used on a particular type of vase called a Jasmine vase.  That is a different shape completely to Christine's item but it's still a design link that would not make me discount a French maker. 
Some examples here:
https://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2017-1w-boschet-jasminvase-korb-gruen-1840.pdf
Also the design of the foot. 

That said, I know nothing about American glass so there is  a huuuuge body of glass that I couldn't even contemplate trying to compare to.  I'd think it more unlikely to find American glass here however with international sales I guess it becomes more likely than it was in the past.
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Glass / Re: Mid 19th century opaline vase with ruffled rim & blue pineapple knop?
« Last post by cagney on April 10, 2024, 09:47:49 PM »
  I sold the vase some years ago. I remember it well though. The opening into the body was fashioned neatly and I could stick my pinky finger through the opening. Also the green body tested positive for uranium. Shards of this particular blown molded pattern were dug at the Sandwich site by Mr. Barlow Personally back in the day, in various colors. The pattern is called "blunted diamond and prism". A bit of a misnomer I think. the diamonds are soft and and a bit rounded , but still a point.
  The open bottom of the foot on some examples has always been suspect in my mind. Just not a thing in American glass in this period, unusual. Seems to be a thing in the sawtooth version.  Twingedsphinx suggestion likely.
  Christines vase I am not sure what to think. The Mellon ribbed body bespeaks Bohemia, But the heavy top rim treatment says not.

     



 

   
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Yes, very surprised to find him, I never knew they existed in this colour, then I found this thread and thought  great I should share some pictures.
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