Topic: Modern Basket Vase

[horochar]

Does anyone know the maker and vintage?  The piece has a polished base.  I'm assuming it is vintage Murano (1960s), based on style and quality, but I've seen nothing like it in my limited reference library.
Any help would be appreciated.
Charles.

[langhaugh]

I'd tend to start looking at Maastricht and Verboeket before I looked at Murano. That's an immediate and totally uninformed hunch, but there you have it. Anybody more familiar with Maastricht than I am (i.e. Ivo)?

David

[Ivo]

yes quite familiar with Maastricht here - but this does not look like Verboeket at all. I'd think Belgium or Canada (Chalet) but I would not bet a Euro on it.

[langhaugh]

Don't think it's Chalet, which are invariably marked, so Belgian?

David

[horochar]

Most Chalet is marked, although some is not.  This piece has some age to it; my sense is circa 1960s.  For what it's worth, the piece is well-made, does not have a "cheap" feel to it.
Maybe it's something good, maybe not.  Hope springs eternal.
Charles.

[shandiane78]

I think this could be a J.I. Co Murano piece. They made lots of styles, including baskets like this, with the green stripes (and sometimes other colors) along the ribs.

[langhaugh]

Charles:

What does the vase look from the side? i.e. how are the handles made?

Shannon knows  JI far better than I do so it must be a thought. However, that green doesn't look right for JI (or Murano or Chalet), and I haven't seen anything quite like it in any catalogue. Neither does it look like the Chalet baskets I've seen, again wrong colour, too restrained, and the foot doesn't look right.

David

[horochar]

I own some "generic" pieces that appear on that fine and informative J.I. Co website.  It's great to know who imported them, but it would be better yet to know who produced them.  Maybe it's an unsolved mystery like the Irice company, which was the subject of a previous post of mine about a year ago.  In any case, below is a photo of the side of the vase, as requested.
Thanks,
Charles.

P.S. - mystery solved (perhaps): http://www.fossilfly.com/Forums/showthread.php?p=4440 and http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-VENETIAN-Murano-ART-GLASS-Bowl-J-I-Co-ITALY_W0QQitemZ370062149101QQihZ024QQcategoryZ994QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem.  Check out this bird dish and basket vase, and note the opalescence and green lines near base.  Which begs the question, just who made these pieces?  Importers do not blow glass.   

[langhaugh]

It does look like a quality piece! Is it partly opalescent? With the touch of browny red at the bottom it look almost Czech, but again the green looks wrong.
It looks too nice for Chalet (Chalet did make some good stuff, IMO, but not baskets), or for JI (although Shannon has shown us some decent JI pieces).

David

[shandiane78]

I'm not entirely sure, but I do think there's a good chance it's a J.I. import. Let me show you a couple more J.I. pieces that have similarities.

Somewhat similar form:



Opalescence with green stripes:



They did the green stripe thing a lot, on lots of different kinds of pieces.