Topic: Deep blue glass bowl blown into a cage

[ginogrammy]

Hi Ivo! I have a bowl that looks pretty much identical to yours and have been trying forever to find another like it as i know that it's old. Mine is 4" tall (not including the wrought iron type blackish metal it's blown into) and not quite 4& a half inches across the mouth of it. It is very deep gorgeous blue. It has 16 bumps? in all. I would love to know if anyone has seen these before. Mine is also nicely polished on the top rim. I'm not sure how I would describe it other than deep blue melon like blown glass with iron cage?

[Lustrousstone]

Ivo's isn't blown into a cage.

Start a new thread with pictures for yours.

[ginogrammy]

Ivo, I hope you find out the maker of your vase. Mine looks like yours but it's blown into a wrought iron frame & the closest I could find that's very similar is either Schneider or Daum.

[Ivo]

There are a number of glass makers who have done metal cage blown ware - but usually the cage is retained. Daum / Majorelle and Schneider for sure - but on a different colour scheme and finish altogether. Wiktor Berndt for Flygsfors - but also in a different class of quality, esp. the copper caging. And then from the 1980s the Spanish glass blowers, filling the garden centres with hall lights, votives and cachepots of a more rustic character - you may call them rustbuckets and not feel guilty...
My vase was blown in a 4 part metal mould, which is a different technique even if the end result looks the same. The rim was very carefully polished - pointing at a quality maker. The maker has still not been identified.

[ginogrammy]

My deep cobalt bowl does look pretty much identical to yours, but is in a wrought iron cage. It looks very much like very much like a Schneider vase that sold for $950.00 in 2004, but he glass was orange. Does anyone know of makers that did glass with the wrought iron cages? That would be great help, as
Daum & Schneider are the closest that I can find with the cantaloupe shape glass blown into a wrought iron cage..

[albglass]

An aside to Ivo's comment about the "rustbuckets."  In the 1960s, Felipe Derflingher in Mexico City had a 20 man operation making drinking glasses, lamps, chandeliers, bottles, etc. using metal cylinders that were pierced, into which bottle glass was blown, and the metal antiqued to look old.  Most of the cylindrical caged glass we see in the United States, particularly in green, ambers, and browns, has come up from Mexico.