Topic: Japanese Whitefriars?

[scavo]

Obviously not.

I've looked in all my usual places to try to ID this 'Whitefriars wannabe' but haven't seen an exact match yet.

It's a fantastic shade of tangerine-orange, hexagonal shape, 7" tall.

It's only junk but some info for it would be nice.

[Greg.]

There's some useful info on these contained in the below link. No definitive confirmation, although possibly Japanese in origin....

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=29500.msg162565#msg162565

[scavo]

I've seen the Davidson ones before. Mine is slightly better in weight and feel - but still not great!

The blue Japanese (?) one in the forum linked above certainly looks like mine (shape, pattern, thickness) but there is one aspect where there is a big difference. The blue one has a kind of inverted arch giving a nice profile to the sommerso effect. Mine is more like the Davidson one in that it is pretty flat suggesting to me at least a kind of cheapness. Was there any consistency on this matter?

[Greg.]

I would suspect there was just no consistency with the casing on these. Here are a couple of others in the links below for comparison purposes...

A pic of the base may also help for comparative purposes...


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Japanese-Best-Art-Glass-Textured-Red-Cased-Glass-Vase-/360413616123?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item53ea5357fb#ht_2194wt_952


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Japanese-Best-Art-Glass-Textured-Amber-Cased-Glass-Vase-/120819725241?pt=UK_Art_Glass&hash=item1c216ab3b9#ht_2194wt_952

[Lustrousstone]

Casing thicknesses and profiles can very quite a lot from one item to another.

[scavo]

Thanks to you both!
Wow, I'd never have thought it was worth 30 quid! I might have to put mine on ebay this weekend!!!!

[robert1960]

With respect, somebody asking £30 is not the same as somebody paying £30

[scavo]

With respect, somebody asking £30 is not the same as somebody paying £30

indeed! but that seller is no chump.

It's a free listing weekend on ebay again so I might be lucky?

[vidrioguapo]

indeed! but that seller is no chump.

True, but he's looking for one.  Those vases are pretty poor quality in my view.

[stew2u2]

i never look at BIN items for there price just nice to know what they are