Topic: Large facet cut green cased vase (2)

[Jazzy64]

Hi,

I have recently acquired this green vase but know nothing about it.
It is a large size torpedo shape (50 cms tall) and has a hot finished top rim but most interestingly it is covered from top to bottom in thousands of very small facet cuts.  It is this that drew me to the vase. Oh and very heavy!

Please can anyone help as to who made it, design etc.

Many thanks.

J 

[chriscooper]

The finish I think is called Battuto. Italian predominately though  originally Daum Nancy used this technique? but now much copied in Poland and the far East.

Chris

[Jazzy64]

Hi Chris,

Thank you - I am a collector of Isle of Wight Studio Glass of many years and am always on the look out for other interesting items.

This is a very distinctive tall shape - would you consider this a piece worthy of more investigation or a piece of tat?

Many regards

J   

PS - it is very heavy and feels good quality - any thoughts?

[glassobsessed]

Large, heavy and poorly finished (the base) points to recently made and Chinese. I would expect a battuto cut Italian vase to have many more smaller cuts - really densely crammed on. There has been a lot of this battuto cut Chinese glass appearing in TK Maxx in the past two years.

John

[Paul S.]

this 'hammered' looking surface effect, produced by cutting, was certainly used around the 1920/30 period by VSL on decorative wares and probably by others on the Continent.           There's also been press moulded wares from Durobor, apparently, but that's very obviously pressed and not cut.
However, the base on this piece appears to lack a quality finish, and may well be something quite recent from the Far East??

Sorry this not really helpful, but this might jog other people's mind to look in - I seem to recall we've had this sort of thing before.

[Greg.]

Have to agree with John, similar finished Battuto pieces have been on the board before. I would suspect either China or India as one of the likely candidates for this one.

[KevinH]

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