Topic: Iridescent uranium basket with opaque trail and barley-twist handle

[Pinkspoons]

Another "I know nothing" item from the auction joblot.

The post title says most of it - glass basket in iridescent uranium glass with applied twisted handle. There's an opaque trail running around the top rim and a little into the basket, although this is a little uneven in places. Where the handle attaches to the body is topped off with crude berry prunts.

Finished to the base with a polished pontil.

[Lustrousstone]

Not one I've ever seen before  :mrgreen:

[keith]

Looking in Truitts bohemian glass,1880-1940,the firm Hosch produced a number of glass baskets some with what appear to be barley twist handles and a few with similar bases,page 75 if you've got the book,
                                                                      Keith.

[Lustrousstone]

Those are Kralik baskets, according to the caption. Bohemian seems more likely than English because of the iridescence.

[Cathy B]

Iridescent, opalescent or a bit both? Is that 'fire'?

[Lustrousstone]

Your pix are lovely but can we have a more ordinary one in daylight please

[Pinkspoons]

Thanks for the comments.

There's no opalescence - it's just the glare of the iridescent finish. The glass itself, as far as I can tell, is just green where it's thickest and fades to near-clear where it's thinnest.

The images are fairly accurately representative of the actual piece - but I just snapped another in unadulterated daylight (it looks arty-farty, but it is just perched atop the seat of my exercise bike):

[Lustrousstone]

You couldn't do ordinary if you tried, could you?  :kissy: I can see the trailing better, but what I can't see is the iridescence  :huh:

[Pinkspoons]

I'm having trouble trying to convey it well in photos. It's a subtle effect (unless you get greasy fingerprints on it - then it goes petrol-like) - it is mostly just a minor shift between green and reddish-yellow when you catch it at the right angle. I think the first and second pictures convey this a little. The surface also has a slight mirror-like quality to it.

Perhaps I'm mixing my terms up here? I don't know if there's a specific name for subtle two-toned mirror-ish finishes... 

[obscurities]

Personally, the bottom seems a bit heavy for Bohemian to me....

Craig