Topic: Early 20th C Iridescent satin Uranium Vaseline Bulb vase maybe for tulip bulb?

[Patricia]

Hi Andy,

Just back from being away and opening up the computer I stumbled on your bulb vase which I'm sorry to say is not a bulb vase, too narrow.
I like it as a vase though, should make an uranium glass collector very happy, I hope you do well with it.

Patricia

[krsilber]

Very nice vase, Andy!  Don't know a thing about its origins, as is true of so much glass in this forum!

I like this one, its design appeals to me, unusual shape, i presume quite complicated to make,
would it be blown, or mould?

Questions about manufacture I'm a little more comfortable with.  Blown and moulded are not mutually exclusive; perhaps you're thinking of pressed vs. blown.  Much blown glass was shaped at least partly in a mould, and it's highly likely that's the case with your piece.  Freeblowing (without a mould) it would have been possible, but much more time-consuming.  The other technique, pressed, is not an option here because it's cased.

The circles on the bottom - tool marks or mold marks?  They aren't very common in much of the glass I usually look at; is it more common in English glass, does anyone know?

[Lustrousstone]

They're mould marks and common on many mould blown items

[Andy]

Thanks Patricia,
not a bulb vase, never mind ( I could try a garlic bulb !)
thanks for your help,

Kristi and Christine, thanks,
i think its the cased thing , the blowing, and the moulding i sometimes get confused with,
i sort of know how its done, a blob inside a blob and then blown into a mould

Getting there on this one, now, i wonder who made it?

Thanks all,
Andy

[Dave the Glass]

Andy
I think you might struggle to grow Garlic in there, tends to grow best underground i find

[Andy]

Occasionally, i see similar to this shape, and often Christopher Dresser is mentioned as designer,
anyone think this is possible?
Is Bernard OK? hes been conspicuous by his absence. Hope all is well,probably just busy.
 
Happy 11th Jul to everyone
(July 11 is the 192nd day of the year (193rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 173 days remaining until the end of the year.)

Andy

[Andy]

Another one from 2008.
Ivo suggested possibly Walsh Walsh.
(not sure what i was on about in last post about july 11th, i think i was drunk  :24: :cheers: Ive since
learnt its not always a good idea to post after the pub  )
Andy

[obscurities]

Hi Andy, saw a question went unanswered....

Yes, some of the early Loetz glowed. 

Second is a comment, Loetz Olympia would be a consistent color and would not have opalescence or layering the glass.  It would be a single shade of pale green. 

Craig

[Andy]

Thanks Craig :thup:

[Bernard C]

Definitely English, most likely Walsh Walsh.   ...

Most, perhaps all, of the late C19 and early C20 use of canary glass by Walsh that I've seen has been in combination with other layers of plain flint and/or opalescent, or Walsh's mother of pearl.   Walsh's canary on its own was strongly coloured, so I surmise that they tried to moderate the effect by combining it with other glass.   See the bottom end of the trumpet flute where it joins the base here (click on the bottom right close-up).   You can see both the strength of colour and the thickness of the flint casing.   Only around 5–10% of the glass used was canary in this example, and the outcome is a lovely gentle colouring, enhancing the enamel and aventurine? inclusions.   Any stronger and the canary colour would have swamped the inclusions and frightened the neighbours.

I agree with Ivo — that Walsh is the obvious starting point for attribution.   I do have some unpublished Walsh material, so will check it this evening.   Has anyone checked the factory pattern books, reproduced in Reynolds?

Apologies for not looking at this topic before.   Bulb vases switch me off!   Someone should have alerted me.  

Bernard C.