Topic: Cobalt blue ribbed bowl

[KevinH]

The blue is very similar (depending on lighting conditions) to the inside of a small "Tutti Frutti" vase I have - so it must be Murano? No?

[kane_u_pain]

I have nothing to add here Ivo. But that colour is beautiful and the style it is in is  :thup:.

[dirk.]

Did you get any further with this one, Ivo? I´ve found another one last week, when I was in Bremen.

[Ivo]

It is still standing here, obviously puzzled about its function in life.  Finding one in Bremen would point at  German or Danish origin, wouldn't it!

[ju1i3]

I was thinking it was missing the metal cover even before I read Paul's post. Posy or posy bowl ? (that name seems to cover lots of different things).

A pot to hide an "ugly" outdoor terracotta pot to use indoors was called a cache-pot. They wouldn't have planted directly into a cache-pot. I don't think this is one of those.

Confusingly two things are called jardineres, the large ceramic pot on a column but also the glass vase with a column and bowl on top such as http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Large-Victorian-Enamelled-Green-Glass-Vase-/370416498108?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item563e8b35bc.

[Lustrousstone]

The old glass catalogues show jardinieres as often being glass pots rather longer than they were wide. I suspect they were for flower arrangements rather than pots to create the effect of a jardin (garden), though they might also have held small pots. The glass catalogue term may have been a useful description for something that wasn't a vase, but designed for vegetation of some sort. The ebay item might be called a jardiniere but I think that is ebay "licence" at work. If it ain't a bulb vase then it's just a vase.