Topic: Caithness Xanadu pics - for Sue

[jakgene]

Read the post earlier about the bowl with similarities to my Caithness Cyclone bowl, and it reminded me that I didn't post the Xanadu photos.
here they are 

first the triangular one
JAK

[chopin-liszt]

I don't suppose I really ought to go DDDBM&T here as well,

gorgeous, just gorgeous, I'm green,  :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Thankyou! :kissy:

It is cased in clear - but the strapping is over that, is it? I've never handled one, sob, snifff.

[jakgene]

Glad you like them!

I'm not a technical wizz with glass (just know what I like  but I don;t think it is cased in clear. It looks like a central core of clear, with the colours you see on the outside, white on the inside, and the trailing over the top of the outside colours - but the trailing is not raised - it is sort of sunken into the sand and turquoise colours.
Sorry - I cannot explain it any better than that.......  you can feel the trailing quite clearly, but it is still a fraction lower than the sand and turquoise layers - If you imagine a flat wet sand beach with a rivulet of water over it  thats how it looks - as if it has just sunk into the other layer a little. It is definitely layered on top of them though as you can see those colours through it as the trailing blue glass is transparent rather than opaque.

have added a  close up - hope it shows better what I mean
JAK

[chopin-liszt]

Surface-decorated; marvered-in trails.

What I was wondering is, is the marvered-in trailing over a clear casing, over the colours.
Normally, surface-textured is sort of a silky matt finish.

I could see shineyness on the neck of the bottle, which is what makes me wonder.

The ones in the Exhibition in Perth were all hidden behind tons of heavy glass........

[jakgene]

Thanks for the explanation re the trailing.

re the casing I am now more confused - the top rim (mouth ) of the vase seems to have a clear layer. this may continue as a very thin layer over the turquoise section - but the sand coloured section is definitely not cased and is much duller - as in less shiny than - than the top half of the vase . The bottom section is very silky matt - not shiny at all

too hard for me at this time of night - off to bed for me.  :usd:

JAK