Topic: Pair Aseda Vases?

[Pinkspoons]

Have found a very similar vase on David Fletcher's ever-useful site, but the example there has controlled bubbles in the base. These vases are completely bubble-free and thoroughly opaque. I'm 99.99% sure they're Aseda, but I can't seem to find any others of a bubble-free and opaque nature...

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[Pip]

Hi again Nic - are these dark purple or black?  If purple with a white interior they remind me of some of the Elme production but I've got nothing concrete to go on - just an alternative to consider.

[Pinkspoons]

They're a very dark purple - it only shows up on the stems where the outer casing is thinnest against the white interior.

I've had a quick Google for Elme pieces which might match, but haven't come up with anything yet, unfortunately. 

[vidrioguapo]

Are you sure they are "originals" Nic?   I am probably wrong but my first instinct was repro.  Colour and shape do not look the real deal to me. Please don't shoot me, I hope to get through 2007!! Emmi

[Pinkspoons]

Luckily I'm not in a position to shoot anybody down - I know absolutely nothing about this style of vase! 

I think there's a bit of age to them - the bases have certainly seen better days, and there was an awful lot of muck inside them when my father bought them (these styles of vase aren't my cup of tea, but he seems to delight in buying them en masse!). They also match up fairly well in quality to his other Aseda bubbly vases.

[vidrioguapo]

Oh, Okay.....have also been looking around the web as this is now intriguing me, but so far no luck.  Emmi

[Pinkspoons]

I've hit against the same brick wall. Information on these types of vases is a bit spartan!

[Gill]

I think your vases are fantastic whoever made them!  I'm about to post pics of my collection of 40+ of these vases, mostly definately aseda but I have a few cuckoos in the nest that may not be aseda but very simlar shape that I'd like IDs on.  Do you still have the vases?   Gill X

[Cathy B]

Just me, but I much prefer them to the ye-olde bicycle horn Aseda vases!

[Gill]

Ooooooh, might have to take issue with you there! I think the the old Aseda bicycle horn is the most perfect little glass vase ever made.