Topic: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top

[uglyvase]

Hi, I was recommended to ask for help here to identify a pair of glass vases I know nothing about. I've never seen anything quite like the and am not sure I'd want to again.
http://www.uglyvase.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/alienvase.jpg
They're about seven inches high, the green part is very fine glass although the base clear glass is more substantial, there's a bit more information at
http://www.uglyvase.co.uk/2007/07/the-aliens-scary-vases.html

Many thanks
Chris

[Anne]

Glad you decided to take the plunge Chris. I'm sure someone here will be able to tell you something about them...   

[uglyvase]

Lynne reckoned "probably Bohemian or Czech, possibly English, but VERY Victorian" and that's about all I know (except that they're a very acquired taste!)

[Pip]

What size are they Chris?  :huh:

[uglyvase]

7" tall
3" across the base
2.5" across the widest part of the green glass

[Carolyn Preston]

Lynne reckoned "probably Bohemian or Czech, possibly English, but VERY Victorian" and that's about all I know (except that they're a very acquired taste!)

I'm with Lynne. They are just grotesque enough to be Victorian 

Carolyn

[Lustrousstone]

I think Lynne is spot on. England is the less likely contender.

[uglyvase]

Many thanks you guys. These really are horribly but I'm kinda fond of them. I still don't know what was in the head of the guy that made em, they have to have been on drugs or something 

[Lustrousstone]

That's 19th century design for you. I also think it was a period of experimenting with shapes and colours in glass and when form began to come before function for the middle classes. It was all hand-made so could be as wacky as the maker liked in a way that perhaps ceramics couldn't at the time. Look at some of the Scandinavian 20th century glass, in reality it's equally as wacky

[uglyvase]

I do like the unusual rather than the mundane, if it's not wacky (and a bit ugly) I'm not interested