Topic: Hideous looking vase that know one dare's to look at?

[Tigerchips]

Umm, My friend bought me this vase, quite a hideous looking thing it is too. The vase is hideous as well.  
http://tinypic.com/e64s48.jpg
http://tinypic.com/e64s5y.jpg

Actually, I couldn't figure out if it was a vase or a lamp base.

Help on this would be much appreciated. Thank you.  

[Anne E.B.]

My GUESS is that it is modern - may be Eastern European.

Regards - Anne E.B. :wink:

[RAY]

most likley caithness

[Tigerchips]

most likley caithness

I thought it might be Caithness as well but it just doesn't seem to have the quality. I mean, the hole at the top isn't even round and the vase is lop sided.

Do Caithness make thick heavy vases like this (1530g)? And do they cut the base flat?

[Max]

I agree with Ray, I think this is a Caithness vase.  They do a lot of that splashed up one side, over the bottom and up the otherside (oh matron YESSssss!) style of vase.

Here's one: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CAITHNESS-HANDBLOWN-GLASS-VASE-SPIRAL-DESIGN_W0QQitemZ7353553929QQcategoryZ2685QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[David555]

I don't think it is Caithness - I see so many of the 'one sided' striped / splashed designs and they are medium to thin glass and with smooth sides, some do have a regular mould blown shape like the twist vase Max shows, but I have never seen a Caithness vase like the one in the first post - it looks half melted

I think yes Caithness … if it has been near a nuclear test site

I actually think it's a designer piece (sic) - a one off studio item - good try but not quite … ahemmm

The triple layered Caithness Vases and the like from the late 90s when they tried to explore new territory are supposedly worth collecting - I like the look of them but they are so recent and still have the box and price label which is high so I don't buy (hey does that scan .. em no)

I love the original Domhall O'Broin designs from mid 1960s

Here is my twilight bowl with original label - worth nothing at moment but I think a good investment for future – this is the first size ever produced (4.25”), they played about later

[Tigerchips]

I've had quite a few of these Caithness twilights, one had a white flower in the middle (much like a paperweight).
 

[Tigerchips]

I've just seen a Liskeard vase on ebay with the same colour stripes but with a different shape.  

So is it Liskeard then?

[Max]

I've just seen a Liskeard vase on ebay with the same colour stripes but with a different shape.  

So is it Liskeard then?

Could you put a link up?  I can't find it.  Liskeard Glass usually (or in fact always? All my knobblies have anyway) has an impressed LG to the base.

[Tigerchips]

cgi.ebay.co.uk/STUNNING-1960-s-LISKEARD-KNOBBLY-CONICAL-VASE-RARE_W0QQitemZ7355900367QQcategoryZ64877QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ebay Item number: 7355900367

It doesn't say if this piece has the LG monogramme or not but it does have those knobbly bits that I usually see on them. The vase has 8 stripes and mine has 7.  

I just happened to come across it because I was looking up this stamped LG vase.
http://tinypic.com/eil0jl.jpg

Note how similar the knobbly bits are to the one on ebay.