Topic: Heavy vase - suspect Czech but I'm uncertain. Help.

[ahremck]

I think it may be Czech but I am uncertain.  The base is ground out to leave a very "Whitefriars" type ring but I cant imagine this is Whitefriars.  The protrusions have an almost hooded effect which is also rather unusual.

Ross

[ahremck]

I am stumped - I am now wondering about Japan.  Unfortunately there does not seem to be much information about Japanese makers, which is unfortunate as lots of Japanese glass was sold in Australia.  I used to say the simplest way to differentiate Murano from Japanese was th\at the Japanese had zero or very close to zero included bubbles.  Not so definite these days.

Ross