Topic: iridescent blue vase

[kld628]

Hello!  I just inherited a vase I have admired in my grandmother's china cabinet.  I'm almost sixty and I remember it for about 40 years.  It is approximately 7" tall, iridescent blue with pearlized hearts and vines.  I've attached two pictures.  I have searched for days and cannot figure out who made this vase.  I will deeply appreciate any assistance in identifying this vase.

Warm regards;
Karen

[chopin-liszt]

Hello and welcome to the gmb!


 

I know nothing about really good old expensive glass - it's way out of my league, but my jaw just dropped.
I saw a fabulous and elegant tall vase in an antique shop in Amsterdam many years ago, (when we visited frequently). It was Tiffany, the real thing. Taller and a different shape, but to yours but the same decor.
I used to visit the shop just to drool, twice a year.

Don't get too ecxitewd!
You'll need somebody who knows a lot more than I do to explain why it is or isn't.
It could well be somebody far more recent emulating Tiffany - I'm afraid I can't blow your pics up big enough to see the surface texture clearly.

Well, I hope you're going to cause a stir of some sort here with this vase! 

It is fabulous, whatever it is.

[Ivo]

My first reaction was American studio glass - perhaps Abelman or Lundberg or Orient & Flume.

[chopin-liszt]

I've drooled over their work too Ivo, again, that's as far as I get! 

[dirk.]

...or Carlson perhaps, who did some heart decor also... 

[chopin-liszt]

 
Does anybody suspect the Amsterdam shop might have got it wrong?
Or did they just want £6,000 for a good quality vase..... about 10 years ago?

[selina]

I cant see the pics properly...but there is this one, the shapes of the hearts? leaves? look similar...Hope the link is ok to use?

http://www.trocadero.com/hainesgalleries/items/767266/en1.html

[selina]

This looks similar

http://www.treadwaygallery.com/lotInfo.php?i=23711
 
5th one down...Durand
http://www.carderglass.com/other_companies.htm

[TxSilver]

Good detective work, selina! The other companies that were mentioned would have been signed, and the shape and pattern are wrong for them. I was also wondering if the vase was Durand.

[chopin-liszt]

I'm very impressed with Selina's sleuthing too!
Shape-wise, the Durand one is most similar to the piece in question.

The vase in Amsterdam was very tall and slender, with a delicate foot on a slim "ankle", a narrow neck and flanged rim.
It was a pretty deco sort of shape, which did encourage me to suspect the Tiffany id might be correct.