Topic: Cranberry vase

[VintageMissy]

We have been given this piece as a donation to raise funds for our hospice - I wonder if someone might be kind enough to help me identify the piece
It stands about 30cm high

Many thanks in advance
Sarah

[VintageMissy]

Can anyone help?
please

[Bernard C]

Sarah — It's not Cranberry as glassies use the term, which was generally made from a thin layer of intensely coloured ruby glass cased in clear uncoloured crystal, like my preserve dish here, and generally is Victorian or early C20.   Yours looks to me to be a homogenous red or slightly purple-red, which would date it to the middle of C20 at the earliest and most likely post-war.

My advice to the local charity I help would be to put it on the bric-a-brac shelf at £4.99 and break open the champagne if it sells!  

Bernard C.  

[VintageMissy]

Thanks Bernard - its gone back to the shop with your advice. Much appreciated
 :clap:

[jsmeasell]

This is a recently made item, imported from China. I see these here in the USA with some frequency, occasionally with the paper label ("Made in China") intact.

[VintageMissy]

Thanks James - I will pass this bit of information on to them as well

Kind regards
Sarah