Topic: Small blue vase with gold leaf overlay - ID = Dartington Studio

[flying free]

Question re Dartington Alchemy vases - do they have a ground polished rim please?
thanks
m

[chopin-liszt]

Yup, with a tiny arris on the outside. (not on the inside, where is simply joins the sweep of the inside angle)
That's one of my new glass words, from the "glass museum link" Christine gave us. An arris is a tiny bevelled polished edge at a 45 degrees angle to the flat polished surface of the edge.

[flying free]

Thanks Sue
I have been wondering who this (see link) could have been made by.  On trawling the threads for something came across the vase at the top of this thread and it reminded me of my two vases in the linked thread.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,32447.0.html

I might write to Dartington and ask them I think - even just to eliminate. 
m
p.s.  love the word ariss but think I prefer bevel - it always makes me think of a good old-fashioned well made mirror (according to my dad, no mirror was any good unless it had bevelled edges )

[chopin-liszt]

Aaah, but a bevel is a big one (and I agree with your Dad), an arris is a tiny one, specifically at 45 degrees to a "main" polished plane.

I like arris, because it sounds like somebody saying Harris with a local accent, and of course, Harris is an incredibly important name in glass.  :sm:

I can really see why you're wondering about that vase being potentially Dartington, but can I shove WMF in as another possibility? But wait until somebody who is far better at WMF than I am to come along!

[Anne]

Interesting the arris reference, Sue, thank you. :kissy:  I'll have to post one of my newer mysteries which has those tiny bevels (arrisses?)  Christine took a look at it recently and agreed it's a quality piece but, like me, has no idea who may have made it.

[chopin-liszt]

 
I imagine an arris is a sign of quality, Anne..... (however it's spelled  )

[flying free]

thanks Sue, I wasn't sure WMF vases had  cut and polished rims?
Mind you it was only when I was looking at this thread that I thought Dartington studio may have done some with cut and polished rims.  My pieces from there have fire polished rims as they are crackle cased in clear, so it didn't occur to me. 
The only thing I can say is that they aren't the same type of rim as Royal Brierley and they feel different, so for the moment I have shelved them.
m

[Anne]

M, this is the rim on my Dartington Studio vase, if it helps?
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-9732

[flying free]

thank you Anne.  That looks to be fire polished as well?
I've just spotted another one like the ones on the link and the seller states they were told it was 'Sunderland'.
Same marvered on colours on the surface  :huh:
m

[Lustrousstone]

If you mean this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GLASS-VASE-SUNDERLAND-/190486823898
they could well be right. My sister and I have Sunderland vases with white marvered on to the surface; they too are frosted. Our vases are very thick glass and have sharp pontil marks (I think, I'll check later).