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Clear-cased pale green vase with mica inclusions
Anne:
(With thanks to Della for suggesting the subject line as I had no idea what to call it!)
This vase has me puzzled. It was filthy and needed a good soak and some gentle scrubbing to get it clean. Now clean, I can see it is pale green glass with silver (mica?) inclusions, the whole being cased in clear glass outside. Inside it feels bumpy from the inclusions. Outside is smooth.
Height: 5" (127mm), Diameter: 3¾" (95mm) across the top, 5½" (140mm) across its widest part,
Top rim is cut flat and ground, not polished, as if it should have a top cap or grill on it, but there are no scratches to the glass where this would have sat.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how old it might be and any thoughts on maker please?
Frank:
A close of the 'mica' would be interesting
Hotglass:
My guess by process of elimination would be French 1930's. No idea of maker. Ed.
Anne:
It's quite difficult to get the "mica" to show up properly as it reflects the light, but on the large version of the whole vase you can see the speckles of it and I've tried to get a closeup as well - see below, also a view of the top.
They are definitely silver flakes rather than grains/granules, and not gold or copper like I've seen in other glass.
Frank:
Mica is iridescent and translucent, embedded in glass it looks like silver. But silver flakes could also be used, chopped up bits of silver foil. Comparing the two the difference is obvious. Often sheets of silver are used and these break into smaller pieces as the parison is blown, but you can still see the straight edges of the sheet. Quite commonly found in Italian with both gold and silver being used. But if chopped up for marvering then it becomes much harder to tell. Mica has a longish crystalline structure/graining but silver will be totally smooth.
French, German or Bohemian seem possible, to me, for the piece.
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