Topic: ID help for this hand painted vase please

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I'm currently researching this vase (amongst others) but not getting very far - not my usual sort of glass 

Would anyone mind pointing me in the right direction please - happy to do the time, just not sure what I've got here to start with.

Matte finish on glass, handpainted florals, ground pontil mark

12.5 cm tall x 9 cm wide

cheers
Mel

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Have you tried shining a UV light on it Mel?

John

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Hi John

yes I did (ever hopeful!)

no reaction though


Mel

[Paul S.]

looking at that body colour, think I'd have asked the same question            Regret I can't offer anything positive, but one very likely source would be Bohemia/Czechoslovakia, and could be any time from c. 1890 right through to the 1930's.
Pieces with pastel coloured bodies and additions of floral decoration were produced during that entire period, and made in profusion from several of the factories.
I believe that if a piece is made prior to 1918 then we are supposed to say it's Bohemian  -  after which date we have to say Czechoslovakia.   
They're seen often in charity shops and boot sales etc., and the likelihood of nailing a specific maker is nigh on impossible.    I've had a look through the Truitt's book, but don't see a match.

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Hi Paul, yes I know what you mean. I do tend to zap pieces like this, with mixed results.

Thanks for taking the time to trawl through Truitt's, its one of the books I have and I didnt find a match either which made me think perhaps it wasnt Bo/Czech and I was looking in the wrong place. Generic will have to do.

I must come and look around your charity shops sometime - they sound much better than ours!

Mel

[glassobsessed]

I thought the shape of the vase looked 'classical', as though it could have been inspired by Spanish antiquities (or elsewhere in the Mediterranean for that matter). I would tend to agree with Paul re date and likely place of manufacture though.

So no help whatsover...

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  @ John,

Thanks for the reply - input is always a help....... its good in a strange sort of way that nobody could pin it down straight away I would have felt a right ninny

cheers

Mel

[Paul S.]

..........even I don't look in my charity shops very often now.........seems the palmy days have gone .        The bigger boot sales still do turn these things up though, occasionally, and there's always the chance of something a lot better  -   but I bet you'd be guaranteed of seeing a few at the bi-monthly Kempton antiques gathering.