Topic: Heavy Gold Brown Vase

[jknowles]

Hi all
Another big item I am finding hard to identify.
This is 12 inches tall and weighs about 5 KGs!! and is a bit of a beast.
Has pollished top and bottom and is a browny dark gold sort of colour
I am guessing Czech maybe

Thanks for any assistance
Julian

[pamela]

Hello Julian, sorry, this is definitely not my field, but wished to welcome you on GMB!
Hopefully some specialists will come along soon and comment positively on this beauty 

[jknowles]

Thanks for the welcome Pamela
It is a strange one. It feels quality but have no idea about age apart from the wear on the base, so must of some age.
I am guessing around 70's but that is as far as it gets
J

[kane_u_pain]

Bump...!

Very nice piece. I have seen something similar before in the colour combo and style. But then the neck and the way it is polished throws me out!

You have this organic shape which is then lopped off at the head LOL

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[vidrioguapo]

My first thoughts were Czech, Julian. Although can't back it up with an ID.  Can you edit your thread title to put "Czech" into it........you may attract the right people to say yes or no at least?

[astrid]

I like it, but I can merely speculate about origins. There are some details that make we wonder whether a Czech origin is correct, like the polished rim, which feels un-Czech to me. Also, I have some brown Czech pieces of the 50s-80s, and the colour of yours doesn't really match. Unless it's much younger than that, at which point colour comparison doesn't really work anymore.

If it's not a modern vase, but a 50s-80s piece, that would stylistically leave some options like Scandinavia, Germany, France etc, but somehow my (sometimes erroneous) first guess would be Belgium or France. The lobed form, the way it goes from lighter at the bottom to darker at the rim, and the polished rim remind me of 60s-70s Belgian glass, but I have never seen that colour used there, so maybe I'm way off.

Astrid