Topic: Iridescent vase

[culverwood]

Iridescent glass vase with bubbles throughout.  The base is quatrefoil form.  It is 14cm high.  There are no markings.

[culverwood]

If anyone knows where it comes form I would be very pleased to know.

[chopin-liszt]

So do I. Very much indeed.  :thup:

I have three different pieces like this and have never managed to find out what they are. A yellow one, and two clearish ones., all different shapes.
I had a 4th, in powder blue but gave it to somebody.
I've had them since ~ 2001.
I really don't think they're Chinese. :angel:

[Mosquito]

I too would like to know - like Sue I've had a few of these, one a taller cylindrical vase in powder blue but with the same wispy cased powders & iridescence as well as a vaguely Monarty looking footed vase (shown below) in this green with bubbles. After searching high & low for a maker, I eventually gave up & passed them on...

[culverwood]

I have been ferreting around since I posted the iridescent vase and have come up with this.

http://www.moltabellaglass.com/items/551157/en1store.html
"This is a rare Mario Pinzoni vase for Seguso Vetri d' Arte, circa mid 19364. The same series piece is pictured on page 141 of Rosa Mentasti's book Venetian Glass 1890-1990. I will try to add the reference picture at a later date for those who do not have the book. It has a unique bubble design with additional specks inside. The exterior is an iridescent finish. The piece does not have any damage, a few air bubbles exposed at the top, clearly done in the making. Unmarked. Measures 4 1/2 inches tall and 3 3/4 inches wide. Perhaps this is an earlier 1930's Barovier piece or Flavio Poli for Seguso. They all produced similar techniques."

A very similar example to the iridescent vase appears in '20th Century Glass' by Judith Miller, p.32. The example illustrated in the book is by Pinzoni, Seguso Vetri D'Arte.

[chopin-liszt]

I'm looking at p32, there is a mention of Pinzoni, but no pictures of anything made by him.
Trocadero is a very reliable source, although I had thought to lean a bit towards Eastern Europe for these pieces.
They don't turn up often and I do grab them when I find them.
The bubble part of the design is similar to pieces by Schott-Zweizel, and this very rainbowy iridesence is one I tend to associate with "Bohemian" glass and ceramics.
I've taken some pics, still need to sort them.

[Andy]

Some similarities with mine,
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,26765.0.html
Mines got a polished base with polished pontil though.
 

[chopin-liszt]

As you say, the pontil mark is completely different, and it doesn't seem to have the rainbow iridesence wchich is a major feature of the bits we're talking about. Your bubbles seem diferent too -  smaller, and they don't extend into the colour.

I can see where David is coming from with Benny Motzfeldt for your bit...... she did like bubbles and inclusions and did do stuff with that sort of orangey red.....

[Andy]

Youre right Sue, i wasnt looking very closely, mine definitely not iridecent  

[paulbowen]

I believe these originate in Romania.  A more typical color is a yellowish-green, but the bubbles are the same.  Don't know the factory name, though.