Topic: Large engraved glass celery vase, ferns/leaves, footed old? lots of wear on foot

[flying free]

I'd really appreciate any information at all on this piece as I have absolutely no idea where to start.
It's engraved with ferns and leaves and I think wheel engraved?  all the decoration is matt and shows the wheel striations or lines.
It's very big at 9 1/4" tall 4 1/4" widest and 4" diameter foot.  My photo is angled so doesn't show it well, but the foot is wider than the rim which is only 3 3/4" wide.
The pontil mark is beautifully polished.
The ring of wear around the foot is right on the very edge of the foot as it is raised and the wear is completely matt.  The foot is quite thick, the glass overall is quite 'thick', not fine delicate glass as it were.
The rim is firepolished.
Thank you for looking and for any information at all.
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[keith]

Could it be a hyacinth vase? looks 20th century,maybe Stuart,just been looking at 20th Century B.Glass,don't remember seeing anything similar,if it is a hyacinth vase then maybe Patricia is the person to ask,

[Lustrousstone]

I think it might be a bulb vase too

[Ivo]

With a 3"opening ? That is enough to let any bulb fall through - so I vote NO for technical reasons.

Ferns are a popular theme around 1850 - I think that is the period +/_ 10

[keith]

Large onion ?

[Lustrousstone]

It's not a celery, you'd not get much in. How big is the inside opening?

[flying free]

The only bulb that would sit in the neck would be an amaryllis bulb.  But I wasn't sure they would have made bulb vases for amaryllis?
the opening at the neck is about 2 3/4" and I thought this was too wide as well.
I thought I had read somewhere that around mid 19th was when celery vases had this 'bulb' type outward curve at the neck, I thought Neil posted something about a Molineaux Webb pressed celery vase with that feature iirc?

Which reminds me, I'll go have a search and see if I can find that thread.
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[flying free]

Our posts crossed Christine
The diameter at the opening is 2 3/4" and looking at it I think you might get one 'bunch' of celery in if you see what I mean?
I'll have to have a good look at dimensions for other celery vases and see if it matches then.
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[flying free]

This was a Molineaux Webb post I remembered - they're not really the same shape (memory not that great after all  )
but I suppose there are some similarities
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,30573.msg165698.html#msg165698

[flying free]

So would the opening be too big for an amaryllis bulb, or is it unlikely it would have been made for that anyway?  Can I discount bulb vase as a possibility?
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