Topic: big green vase with controlled bubbles scandi??

[jonchellycain]

LAST ONE TODAY I PROMISE :kissy:
Ok picked this up in auction about 2 months ago for just £7 Gorgeous green in colour thicky cased in clear glass, there is a layer of non uniform bubble over the green. The base has a ground out and polished pontil (like the whitefriars dimpled style)
30cms tall, 9.5cms in diameter and weighs 3.3kgs
any ideas anybody??
michelle

[glassobsessed]

Looks kind of contemporary Czech too.

John.

[jonchellycain]

cheers john the shape is similar to a piece of baranek i had a while back, ive seen something slightly similar on here with the name pairpoint gunderson linked to it could mine be the same??

[Lustrousstone]

Unlikely IMHO, Pairpoint Gunderson is US glass, which doesn't pop up over here that often, all things considered.

[Ivo]

I've had a similar item in blue once with a Japanese sticker on it - just to illustrate that nail mould glass is very difficult to pin down.

[Ohio]

Any of these similar vases being IDed as Gunderson era Pairpoint (and there was one posted the other day) is incorrect. Gunderson did not do anything remotely close to these. Often both Erickson or Sweden & Erickson USA (not related) plus, as IVO stated, others from Japan are often misided as Pairpoint....evidently there is a group (mostly US) that believes if it has bubbles it must be Pairpoint.