Topic: ruby,gold flake vase with opaque flashing

[sceaj]

I'm new to the forum and to class collecting. I have this unusual vase that I like, but have no idea what it might be. I was thinking Murano when I bought it, but I haven't seen anything similar

[Ivo]

Good morning and welcome to the glass board.
It seems you have an interesting vase there, consisting of an opal glass body with applied aventurine. Unfortunately the photographs are a bit unclear. You have used a large format and reduced them - but not in size. Now there is not a lot of detail left, just a lot of blur.

Hopefully you can redo the pix so they are maybe smaller but have more detail? If you can, please also include a shot of the underside.

At first glance it is not possible to say where your vase is from with any degree of certainty. Murano is just one of the many possibilities.

[Lustrousstone]

Welcome. You need to start with a high resolution picture and then resize it so that the longest dimension is about 600 pixels (this works for pix that start off at 3-4 MB). Don't reduce the resolution.

[scavo]

With the photos you put here it is very difficult to see the finish of this vase.

I have seen vases with very similar aventurine but without handles for sale new, in my local indoor market, made in China.

The shape of the base is very similar to some things possibly ID'd as Lafiore elsewhere on these pages.

[sceaj]

Sorry about the photos, and thanks for the advice. I hope this is better. The Laflore example I found was different, but close enough that I will explore that some more.  Thanks

[flying free]

It may not be but it reminds me quite a bit of the vase in this link.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,41666.msg231021.html#msg231021

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[scavo]

In these new photos the base is totally different to the Lafiore ...

There are aventurine experts in this forum so stand by for some valuable info quite soon.

The white part is quite distinctive. Someone may recognise that.

[scavo]

There are similarities but 'lucky Tiffany guy' (?) didn't provide a base photo for us to compare. He did describe it as ground. This one is clearly not ground.

[flying free]

the base photo was further down the thread.
As I said, I could be wrong, it was just that there seemed to be similarities so I thought it would be worth mentioning this thread  :sun:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,41666.msg231169.html#msg231169
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[sceaj]

I have found several retailers in the US that handle Dale Tiffany, including JC Penny which is a respectable department store that is in every town in America. I found a bunch of vases using similar techniques, but not this particular one. One source for this brand is here.  http://www.onewayfurniture.com/dale-tiffany-pg50050.html
Thanks again