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Orange mottled vase with a 'V' carved in the base
Lustrousstone:
But it has got a polished pontil, its just that the scar was too deep to remove completely. I wouldn't like to say whether it was WMF or not but my instinct is not contemporary. Where in the world did you buy it from?
Anik R:
;D
I bought the vase about 6 years ago on 'Allegro' (something like ebay)... I had to pay only a few zloty for it as I was much cheaper then than I am now. But honestly, for the life of me, I have no idea why I bought it. :pb: I also don't remember how it was described.
Thankfully, my son likes it (because of the color) and asked if he could keep it in his room... At least it will have a better home than stashed under the sink...
But it still would be nice to find out about the maker. :)
chopin-liszt:
I would think the body of the jug has been mould blown, then a blob of hot glass put on the base (after removal from the mould) so the pontil iron can be attached, so the body can be heated at the Glory hole and it can have the handles and frilly bits of hot glass added.
The scar has come from breaking this off at the blob of glass - hence the moulded bottom, with a pontil scar finished off as best it could be.
Glasshound:
NOT Ikora >:D
It's not a WMF shape, the color is all wrong for Ikora, WMF didn't apply handles to their pieces, etc, etc, etc...
/Blair
Anik R:
Oh Blair... Couldn't you let me entertain the idea of this being a very strange (i.e. remarkably ugly) WMF vase just a little while longer? I mean, it would be highly romantic to think a young, well-meaning but cross-eyed, apprentice made this before he was rudely asked to leave WMF and never show his face again in the glass-making world. :'(
You never really know... It might have happened... Really.
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