Topic: Ball shaped vase

[mrs vulture]

Hi
I found this vase under some junk in a box at a car boot. I only paid a couple of pounds for it but didn't see how nice it was until I washed all the muck off it. Its 7 inches tall and a lovely smoky grey colour. Its nicer than the photos show and is covered in little lens type windows. You can see all the other lens' reflected in each other. It looks quite lovely in the sun. Is it just me or is very difficult to photograph glass so that it looks like it really does. Would it be moulded and then the top cut and polished. Any info would be helpful . Thankyou. Cheryl.


http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w97/cheryl1300/ball003.jpg

http://i174.photobucket.com/albums/w97/cheryl1300/ball004.jpg

[Lustrousstone]

Borske Sklo, Czechoslovakia, late 1960s, early 1970s. Blow moulded and then the top was ground and polished

[mrs vulture]

HI, thanks for that , thats everything I needed to know in one answer!!! Cheryl

[Jindra8526]

This is absolutely sure Borské sklo, pattern  55184/?, but not 60ties but 1958 (published in CGR in 1959). Surely it has been produced for more years but 70ties is totaly out.

Jindrich

[Jindra8526]

excuse old fat man, the pattern is named:
"great olives optic"  -  "GROSSE OLIVEN Optik" - "velké olivy optik" (EN, GR, CZ)
Jindrich