Topic: Carnaby Cased or Cheap Chinese?

[horochar]

The seller had no information about age or provenance.  Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Charles.

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4kuwfgj

[Pinkspoons]

Not Carnaby.

Probably fairly modern Polish - but it's hard to tell.

I do like the shape, though. 

[Hotglass]

Interesting question which could be applied to a number of "Holmegaard" items appearing on Ebay. Last summer there was a rash of cased Gul vases in the States with shorter rims and clear casing. We found the retailer selling them - by which time they had sold out. I think Poland was the most likely place for those. Ed.

[Cathy B]

Ed, were those ones the same as mentioned in this thread here?
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,14349.0.html

[Hotglass]

Yep Thanks that's it: West Elm altho I should say that they are only one retailer who happen to have a web store (+20 or so B&M stores). I guess several other outlets had these vases too.
OH I just noticed that these messages were just over a month ago - not last year !
So the guy is at it again. I assume it's the same guy. I'll have to make enquiries to check. If so he was made aware that we at least knew what he was doing. He must have given it a rest in between as that yellow one is exactly what we were seeing last summer. He must have bought out their stock - no wonder they sold out.  I haven't seen the squat green one before.
The blue one is more convincing but something about the proportions is wrong. You can't easily see it from that pic because of the angle of the photo (deliberate ?). Also there is a slant between the body and the neck, but on the real ones it's straight across then pretty much a right angle up. 
Unfortunatley I didn't save any of the pics from the West Elm site which were there last august even tho they sold out. But in looking for them on my computer I found a pic of a blue Gul from Ebay which I titled "Italian Holmegaard Gul". It's strange that I didn't note where I got that info from, which I am more careful to do these days, so I looked at the date of the pic and it's 2005.  I guess that's what made me wary of buying one and why I still don't own one. Ed.