Topic: Clear and white glass vase

[heartofsklo]

A lovely shape with nothing to the base except a ground pontil/mould scar.

[chopin-liszt]

 :spls:

I'm not sure what you mean by "ground pontil/mould scar" - if it's moulded, it wouldn't really require the use of a punty iron, so no pontil scar.
And I'm afraid I can't make out what's happened to the base in your picture at all.

[heartofsklo]

The base has a slight convex to it, no true pontil or mould mark as it is obviously hand blown and cut from the top. I am not sure if this image is really any clearer.

[Ivo]

There were no takers for this question either....
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37359.msg204546.html#msg204546

[chopin-liszt]

The base of the vase in question seems to me to be plain mould-blown - no grinding at all.

I'm afraid I can't help with the id of either vase though, sorry. 

[Chris Harrison]

I agree, this one looks as though it has never had a pontil applied to the base.  

It may have been blown into a mould and then reintroduced into the glory hole to fire-polish the mould marks.  Or it was just shaped on the blowing iron, then cracked off and the top rim was ground flat after it cooled down.

Ivo's, however, looks as though a pontil was used (so that the lip could be worked) and then, after the vase was cracked off, the pontil scar on the base was melted flat using a gas torch.

[Cathy B]

Is the rim ground?