Topic: Any one able to recognise this vase please ??

[abc]

Any of you fine experts able to recognise this case. its 7 inches tall with a stepped or ribbed part near the foot . It has silver or gold mica and a red vein in it  :help:and came from a belguim market i understand

[astrid]

It could possibly be Belgian, they like curvy shapes and the colour gold (though I've usually seen the gold as bands put on, rather than as flecks). As for other avenues of research, French glass got imported into Belgium a lot too.

Sadly, only one Belgian factory got ever researched, and I don't think it's from Boom. I've looked at the very few other resources I have on Belgian glass, and I can't find it, and it doesn't match a particular style of factory I'm familiar with.

Perhaps someone else  has an idea where to look...

Astrid

[astrid]

The more I look at it, the more I'm starting to believe it might be French art deco. The rounded foot resembles the French vases from that period. But that's really not my period of expertise. Luckily, if it's that sort of thing, many dealers and specialists might be able to help you.

It is very pretty. I'd been tempted to buy it too despite my firm believe I should never buy anything that's older than 1950

Astrid

[Lustrousstone]

It's not gold; it's mica, which is silvery in appearance (though it's probably pretty colourless really), as you can tell from the squarish shapes. It only appears gold through the amber. Czech strikes me as another possibility.

You could actually make your pictures larger. I find 700 pixels for the maximum dimension gives a good viewable size. You have 125kb per pic.

[obscurities]

I would lean strongly towards Bohemian/Czech on this.... and also would like to see larger images of the piece.....

Craig

[abc]

here is a larger picture thanks

[abc]

the person who sold me the vase was from holland and said that he purchased it in Belguim from a market and the seller thought he had seen a similar style of the stepped stem in the design (near the base) in a Muller Freres one , although i doubt this as its not signed ,

hope this info helps someone identify it , there is a similar one on Franks Monart website saying that it maybe Stourbridge , there is also a lot of base wear, somehow i dont thing its Bohemian , maybe French ??

[KevinH]

For interest here are a couple of photos (see below) of a signed Muller Freres vase with silver fleck and amber outer coating. The foot is "stepped" but not in the same way as abc's piece.

The photo of the interior shows how the silver fleck (mica) is definitely silver on the inside but appears to be golden on the outside because of the amber flashing, as Christine pointed out.

abc's vase has some deeper colour lines. Whether those lines are actually coloured the same as the deep red on the foot and near the rim of my vase, I would not like to say.

Does this help?

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pid=15168&fullsize=1
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pid=15167&fullsize=1

[Lustrousstone]

That looks much more like (real) silver foil to me Kev, as you can see from the way it's cracked open. So, no it doesn't help to ID it as Muller Freres, as mica is a much cheaper alternative to silver. (Back to the Bohemain/Czech theory?)

[obscurities]

I agree about it being foil and not mica on the piece Kev posted......   I still think Bohemia/Czech also.

Craig