Topic: Oreor - Vases, Lamp Bases etc.

[Max]

[Mod: This thread has been merged with another from 2017. The title has been amended to focus on the "Oreor" mark and the thread moved back from the France forum into the Glass forum for another look by a more general audience.]

Measuring 13" high, this is a whopper!  I have to say I've got no idea even of country of origin - Germany or France perhaps?  There's no makers marks at all.  Seems to be mould blown and uranium, but that's about as much as I can say about it...apart from the fact I love it!  It has a lovely ethereal glow about it and I love large pieces of glass.     Pretty heavy too, as you would expect for a vase this size.

Any idea of country of origin anyone??

[Lustrousstone]

  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Never seen that one before on my searches, sorry

[Mike M]

My best guess -and yes its a guess, but not a wild guess

Verriers De Scailmont SA

from Belgium

[Max]

Due to Mike's help on email, I think I might have found a makers mark.  There's a fat, slanted O and then an italicised few letters after which are impossible to read.  The word is underlined by a swooping, short underscore.

I've looked in Ivo's a-z factfile and I'm thinking this vase could be Oreot, although I can't find out much about them on the net.

Edit:  Believe it might be spelled 'Oreor' not 'Oreot'.

[Bernard C]

Max — When I looked at this first time around, it immediately struck me how very Joblingesque it was.   Like the Lambton, fish, and bird & corn vases it has a ground top, slightly flared to make it a dual purpose vase / lamp base, a satin finish, and is of a similar size.   And the colour is a good match.

So one possibility is that was Jobling, if you discount the faint marks you have observed.   Now, I am sure that there were several patterns in this Jobling range that never went into production, like the tall centrepiece statuette of which a few examples survive.   I believe that there may well have been some development of the range discontinued because of the war, and other scenarios are possible.

Another possibility is that as the Jobling fish and bird & corn vases were certainly modelled by Etienne Franckhauser, with the Lambton vase a possibility, I should have thought how very Franckhauseresque it was.   This could help track down a continental maker.

If you bring it to Cambridge, we could compare it with the Jobling vases, as I am presently planning to bring the fish and bird & corn vases (if I can fit them in).

Whatever, it is a quite beautiful piece.

Bernard C. 

[Glen]

Max - it's an amazing vase. I'm especially interested in the neck, but I can't see the detail I'm looking for in the photos, so could you check it for me, please. The neck structure to compare with is this:

http://www.geocities.com/carni_glass_uk_2000/IncaMarks_Neck.html

Glen

[Max]

Thanks Bernard, thanks for the potential maker info - maybe I will bring it up to Cambridge...it's a massive piece of glass, so I'll have to be careful!  Thanks also for saying that you thought it was beautiful, you should see it in my sitting room at night, I've got a small blacklight tube pointed at it.   

Glen, I'm attaching a couple of photo's here, but I don't think it marries up with your Lily vase unfortunately: 

[floreke]

Hello,

Its a OREOR vase created in France arround 1920.

Regards Floreke

[Anne Tique]

Sorry for coming back to this older post but I was just wondering...

There are plenty of auction results on the net for this brand Oreor, but nothing really informative... Ivo's Glass Fact File and the Glasmarkenlexicon don't talk about this mark but only 'Oreot' ... could this be a different company?

[Ivo]

I must have used the same source as Carolus :-) and it seems likely it is the same maker. Not much information available, I suspect it is a brand name rather than an individual factory.