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Offline peejyweejy

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Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« on: November 25, 2009, 02:39:00 PM »
This is a very unusual little piece. Very light - possibly soda glass - but it has a cranberry lustre wihich stops at the neck. Thought it might be for alchemy but I don't understand the ruffled neck or the colour. Not sure what it is, nor how hold - any ideas please?
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2009, 02:42:44 PM »
Probably a carafe - and might well have had a matching tumbler in the past.  I've seen a somewhat similarly coloured decanter in the past.

It's the sort of thing you'd have had on your bedside table a hundred years ago...
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2009, 03:42:30 PM »
it is more likely lampwork of recent manufacture, not a tumble-up or decanter but purely decorative. Where it was made is hard to say. Lampwork only requires a gas flame and preshaped rods so it is done literally everywhere. But Romania seems a likely candidate, they like their surface treatment. Alternatively, Lauscha (Thuringia) is the capital of decorative lampwork...
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #3 on: November 25, 2009, 04:43:50 PM »
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #4 on: November 25, 2009, 06:38:31 PM »
Quote from: peejyweejy on November 25, 2009, 04:43:50 PM
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this os no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!

In which case it is a perfume from north Africal missing its gilt stopperette.
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2009, 06:49:12 PM »
Thanks Ivo!
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2009, 12:34:43 PM »
Quote from: peejyweejy on November 25, 2009, 04:43:50 PM
Thank you both for your replies - I forgot to mention that this is no taller than 2.5 inches - sorry!

In which case it is unlikely to be a decanter or carafe (though I have a 3" high carafe with its matching tumbler that was catalogued as an opium decanter... amazing what those Victorians got up to...
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2009, 09:54:58 AM »
Do you think this could be an opium decanter. Did they heat the opium?
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« Reply #8 on: December 01, 2009, 03:13:48 PM »
I think that the opium was actually dissolved in a little alcohol - called tincture of laudanum.  This was usually taken with a little water.  Very much for the middle and upper classes - which is why Marx called religion "the opium of the masses".
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Re: Very unusual cranberry lustre soda glass bottle or vase or ???
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2009, 03:21:33 PM »
How, very, interesting. I shall have to google it and find out more - thanks for your reply.   :o
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