Topic: Please help ID this lovely red and orange bubble vase

[Anik R]

Hello again…

Can anyone help me identify this vase?

It’s 29cm tall and very heavy.  The glass seems to be layered – the inside is white, covered with a layer of red and orange.  Then there is a clear layer with some parts which are colored (oranges, greens and browns).  The very bottom of the vase is clear.

Air bubbles cover the vase – larger bubbles at the base moving up to many smaller bubbles at the top.  Aha, I can feel the air bubbles when I put my hand inside the vase.

The base has been ground but is unpolished.

Forgive my lack of professional language in describing the vase...  I’m still just beginning 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!!!
Anik

[Andy]

Anik,
a very attractive vase, hand made, probably from a factory or studio, somewhere
in the Poland area of Europe, and i would think fairly recent.
Maybe someone will recognise the style to a particular maker.
Cheers
Andy

[Anik R]

Thank you, Andy

[dirk.]

Hi,
no idea really, but the colours remind me of vases from former Yugoslavia. Can´t
recall a glassworks´ name though...  :huh:

[Anik R]

Thank you, Dirk  

[jonchellycain]

Hi there
ive seen very similar work from mtarfa and phoenicain but the base's on those are normally well polished
michelle

[Paul S.]

hello Anik  -  lovely piece, but like the others regret I don't know the source.    However, can say that the colour/patterning is what, in geology, wud be called 'banded agate'  -  occurs naturally in some of the quartz material from a variety of places around the globe.   No real help I know, but very attractive, and possibly made deliberately to copy the agates.   

[Anik R]

Thank you Michelle and Paul!  I think it's wonderful that people take the time to pass on their knowledge.  I greatly appreciate it...

All the best!

P.S. As a side note, I could just kick myself in the pants for my 'former' ignorance...  I have quite a few pieces of glass which I bought/collected over the years just because I thought they were pretty and would look lovely on my shelves.  Some of them had labels which I REMOVED because I thought they ruined the 'look' of the glass.  Oh stupid, stupid, stupid me...  Now I know better.  By the way, the vase pictured above was bought on an on-line auction about 4 years ago -- it was described as 'old, original made of colored glass'.  There was no label on it

[suzygpr]

I know I've seen one like this somewhere but can't find it!  It looks very like Gozo Glass, another Maltese glassworks, but can't find exactly the same shape or colourway.  The base is right for Gozo too, they are often signed but not always.  I know this just adds to the confusion, sorry!

Suzy x

[Anik R]

Suzy, not 'confusion' but INTRIGUED 

Thank you!