Topic: Smoky dark blue, seriously masculine, pressed vase - French or Czech or ???????

[chopin-liszt]

I'm just calling it bindweed. :smg:

[ahremck]

Reminds me very strongly of the "rubber plant" so commonly grown indoors.

Ross

[chopin-liszt]

I think bindweed and sweetheart vine are one and the same, aren't they? Flowers simply depend on the season.

Ross, "Whoops, there goes another rubber tree plant....."

Rubber trees have elongated fat oblong leaves - they don't have tendrils and the leaves all sprout from one single stem. The leaves on this vase are heart -shaped, and they and their stems twist and turn around the piece. :thup:

[wolkenreb]

No, they're different Sue, but certainly the design on your vase could represent either.  Doesn't really matter though, does it?

[chopin-liszt]

No Nancy - I'm not remotely concerned about the kind of plant it is, or even if it is a real one at all.
My concern is for how great it looks... and who designed and/or made it, and where.

[wolkenreb]

Amen to that!

[poppyparker]

I think the plant ID could be more important than you think as they go through fashions as everything does and it might help date it.  I'd go with philodendron (I'm a landscaper in foggy San Francisco and obsessed with plants even more than glass!). 

[chopin-liszt]

Thanks, Poppy - I'll go with that as the plant quite happily.  :thup:

I think, though we're looking at around the '30s.
However, Czech design in glass was light years ahead of it's time..... so "the '30s" could be more vague and flexible than I'd like it to be.

[poppyparker]

Thanks Sue

I ADORE Czech glass.  I will keep my fingers crossed for you.

 :sun:

[msiscoe]

Hello, I own one of these in a very dark green glass. These show up sometimes with spurious R Lalique signatures. Never have found out who really made it, but a very nice vase in any event.