Topic: Vase with glass lemon in it, any info?

[astrid]

I got this one in a package deal, and I don't intend to keep it, but knowing what you give away seems a good policy overall. It looks like some weird deco item from the 80s or 90s? The base looks like it has some wear, so it's not brand new.

The lemon inside is made of yellow glass. The vase is quite tall, 38.5 cm, 10 cm across at the rim and 5.5 across at the top.

If anyone knows more about this sort of thing, period, perhaps even factory or country, I'd be happy.

Astrid

[Anik R]

Hi Astrid,

What an interesting, yet strange vase...  I can't decide if I like it or hate it -- part of me wants to try and save the poor lemon trapped inside before it starts to get all mouldy  :spls:

I hope someone will be able to help you with ID 

[Ivo]

If it is lightweight it is lampwork from regional Italy - I think somewhere in Tuscany. These bottles having grapes, lemons, nuts of whatever else inside are used to sell Grappa, Limoncello, Licuore di Nocci etc. There is also a heavy version which is from France.

[Anik R]

These bottles having grapes, lemons, nuts of whatever else inside are used to sell Grappa, Limoncello, Licuore di Nocci etc.

   How ridiculously obvious -- it's a bottle, not a vase -- I must remind my brain to think a little more  :pb:

[astrid]

These bottles having grapes, lemons, nuts of whatever else inside are used to sell Grappa, Limoncello, Licuore di Nocci etc.

   How ridiculously obvious -- it's a bottle, not a vase -- I must remind my brain to think a little more  :pb:

Eh, entirely my fault, Anik. Since my focus is on collecting vases, I sometimes overlook a decanter or a bottle and tend to see the object as a vase - as seen in the subject of this thread...

And thanks Ivo for enlightening us. I'll try to make up my mind about its weight in the morning - too tired now.