Topic: Crackle glass vase, any ideas please?

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Morning  everyone

Not an earth shattering piece by any means. Crackle glass doesn't usually float my boat and amber crackle is even duller-er but this piece caught my eye as it has the green glass lines within which lifts it, imho

Can anyone pin an age / country please or should I settle for generic crackle.

Height 15cm, width 11cm weight 950g.The glass is thick too, about 4mm

Thanks if you can help

Mel

[flying free]

well I'm a crackle glass lover but quite specific about what kind of crackle glass and I think that is beautiful   It has good weight to the glass and the green streaks contrast with the amber really well.  It appears to have a well finished and polished pontil mark and is a great shape for displaying.
Do you have a uv light and does it glow under green under it?
I don't know what it is but I shall now go and have a look round.  I feel sure I've seen something similar somewhere but it's just finding it again  
m

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thanks for your reply and looking around m, glad you like it too, it does have a certain something!.

Just put it under the blacklight - that was a surprise, does glow but not green, a subtle orange..so are we back to selenium again? (I like selenium lol)

Mel

[Mosquito]

Royal Brierley maybe? I don't really know, but it reminds me of some crackle wares I've seen attributed to them. Either way, it's a fantastic vase!

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thank you Steven, I'll go off and do some more research
Mel

[beaubow]

I'm guessing Czech/Bohemian.  It's got a very 1930s look about it  Art Deco, but not what you'd stereotypically think of as Art Deco.

[paradisetrader]

Czech "squashed bun" bases are usually hollow.
I say 1930s French for this piece but thats just an opinion. I have no proof.

[Mosquito]

My vote is still for Stevens & Williams/ Royal Brierley. The shape and applied foot look very English to me. This form was certainly made by S&W - see here for a similarly shaped vase with optic ribbed decor:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1771.0.html (the top photo link is dead, however, the link to theWhitefriars.com site at the bottom of the thread still works).

See here for examples of their crackle glass: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37460.0.html

The unusual thing about this vase is the green trails. thus far I've not seen a positively identified piece of S&W crackle with coloured trails, but then their output from this period seems relatively poorly documented.

Hopefully Nigel or Bernard will see this thread and be able to add more...

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thanks for the further comments - an interesting piece thats not so easy to attribute.

Steven, thanks for taking the time to trawl through past posts, I've wiled away a couple of hours (where does the time go?) following the threads and digressing onto various links and there are certain similarities to the shape & finish of the foot to the SW examples you suggest

I agree it is the green trailing that lifts it, I would have walked away and left it had it been plain.

hopefully there will be further progress.

Mel

[flying free]

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,45632.msg255266.html#msg255266
spotted this one on this board whilst searching for something else   
I'll do a cross link to it as well.
m