Topic: Studio art glass vase help please

[brucebanner]

Hello again can anyone help me id this vase, it's hand blown with a fern pattern some how produced inside the glass very heavy about 2.5kg and heavy wear to the base regards Chris. 8 inches in height 4 3/4 inches across the rim.

[chopin-liszt]

It looks as if it was made by flashing a blank, cutting/etching it, then recasing and reblowing a little bit.
However, I am clueless as to it's origins, I've not seen any studio glass that looks anything like this before.

I'm even wondering if it might be older than studio glass, and a frigger of some sort.

[brucebanner]

That explains how it was made, looking at it from what you have said it makes sense, i did think it was quite old, there are plenty of lumps of white grit in it and i though the age wear might be to it's weight, thus making it a 60's piece, well perhaps it will remain a mystery, thanks for your help.

[chopin-liszt]

It's a bit of an oddity.

I can't quite get to grips with what looks like reasonably deco-style etching on a ruby flashed bit of glass, then recased in clear metal so full of bubbles...

The style of etching and flashing suggests pre-studio glass - the bubbles in the outer casing suggest newer.
The frit (what you call grit), while often a feature of older glass (before methods and recipes got better)  doesn't neccessarily mean it's old. In the early days at Mdina, they had to import cullet, and could only get hold of very poor quality stuff, so it is often full of frit and a poor colour of clear (very yellowy-greeny).

[glassobsessed]

My first impression (for what it is worth) was older than the beginnings of the Studio Movement.

John

[chopin-liszt]

I really think so too, John.
(Good to have your support for this notion, though!)

Chris (that is your given name - if it's ok to use it? I could call you Hulk if you like!)
if you look at the very ends of the ferny leafy bits, and along some of the swag cuts, you'll see bubbles that have formed as a result of the cut being there, on top of the general bubbles.

I believe that is evidence for the flashing-cutting-recasing-reblowing-a-tiny-bit method of making it.

Perhaps it's an embryonic early attempt at a graal/ariel technique! (before they were invented)

[bat20]

I like it,it's not a nailsea pink is it...i'll just get me coat then.

[chopin-liszt]

You've only just got here, Bat20   - do stay and join in!

Is the red colour likely to have come from gold? Not my sort of area of knowledge at all - I'm useless at old stuff.

[aa]

Looks like graal to me, but I don't know who or when. Bear in mind that the first graal pieces were made at Orrefors in 1916. It would surprise me if this piece pre-dated them.

;-)

[chopin-liszt]

I didn't know that, Adam, thanks for the info. 
I shall bear it in mind from now on.