Topic: 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]

 

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 

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.

[Glasshound]

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.

Now that I come to think of it,  I do recall such an apprentice at WMF! I think his name was Wolfgang and he only lasted 2 weeks there because he was making his own "custom" pieces instead of following the WMF design standards..I think this is one of his rare "one of a kind" pieces! 

take good care if it!

/Blair

[Anik R]

Now that's better!   

[Cathy B]

Would Ikora have that pincer work on the handles?

[chopin-liszt]

Blair said WMF wouldn't have handles to be pinced in the first place, Cathy!

[Cathy B]

Ooops, so he has. I didn't even notice the second page. :spls: 2.12 am here, trying to catch up...