Topic: glass vase id

[brucebanner]

Lovely little vase i have had for some time but no idea of age or maker can anyone help please. it's 8 inches in height 2 1/2 inches across the base and 1 3/4 across the rim.

[chopin-liszt]

Is this the one you thought I might know?

I'm not at all sure. Does it have a light irridesence on the surface? If so, it could be Heron Glass, but I'm not sure of their shapes.

[brucebanner]

Yes it has an iridescence and oily feel to it the white bits are really raised, it looks hand blown with lots of ripples in the glass near the rim. 

[chopin-liszt]

Despite you saying there is an oily feel, I don't think it's Chinese.
They feel more greasy than oily, and have a strong smell of acetic acid. And if you've been handling lots of it, your fingers will be all greasy and smelly and odd-feeling too. Take a trip to TKMaxx and find out for yourself! It's actually a very good place to  learn about the new stuff coming in from the far east (hand wipes are to be recommended). If you've seen something there, then see the same on an antique stand somewhere, you know not to be taken in.

It looks as if some form of resist method has been used - the white glass incompatible with the clear glass, to form the round clear shapes when together, rather than mixing.

[brucebanner]

Ok perhaps this might be a good reason to go to TK Max, although the thought of going down our local Merry Hill shopping centre where TK Max is, is  making me sweat and shake a little.

[chopin-liszt]

 
I simply make a bee-line for the glass section. Head down, I ignore everything else as much as possible. Sometimes, I even wear dark glasses to cut down the sensory overload from being there. (I have problems with sensory overload, can't really cope with big modern stores - I like nice wee shops.)
It can be a very good place to find top quality bed linen and towels for next-to nothing. Sometimes I get good kitchen equipment too. You just have to know how to tell the quality stuff from the... other stuff.
I have had some good glass from TKMaxx, wa-ay back in the early days! Some very nice Beranek and Tarnowiec pieces.
These days, I mostly go to find out what new techniques are being used, what new designs are appearing, how well things are being finished off, and how quickly the Chinese glass is improving in quality. And to learn what to spot on unscrupulous dealers shelves!

Have you ever been to see glass being made? I know you're near Broadfield House, you can go and watch folk such as Allistair Malcolm and Ian MacDonald working, you lucky beast!
You learn SO much about glass from watching and learning about how it is made. You learn what is easy and what is difficult, you can judge a piece on it's ease or difficulty of making with more appreciation.
And it is absolutely fascinating.
I collect both Allistair's and Ian's work, and know them both. They're both lovely guys who would be delighted to blether glass with you till the cows come home.

[brucebanner]

Yes i have watched it several times, once they were making a glass candle holder for a broken chandelier, there making glass that looks like mdina beautiful stuff the glass museum has a room full of cameo glass its just breath taking, and on the ground floor at the moment they have about 30 Georgian balusters iv'e got one cost me an arm and a leg, the curator is a great guy very helpful and his mate is my arch enemy he is so knowledgeable about glass he goes around the black country buying all the good stuff he wrote the book 20thcentury glass. i would love to meet him.

[chopin-liszt]

Are you referring to Lesley Jackson? (the first 20th century (Factory) glass book, she is a lady, not a bloke) or are you talking about Andy MacD (as in he of the antiques roadshow these days?)
At least Andy greeted me when I went to the roadshow myself, and got me sorted out with the correct person.
(I didn't take any glass, because I know what my glass is.  Perhaps I should have, just to show off. 
I had some of my Grandpa's whaling stuff. I've had a few good blethers with him here and there in relation to glass though.)
Sorry about "name dropping".
I just can't keep my nose out of anything to do with glass, and I've been around for a wee while, so I've met a fair few important figures in the glass world.
I still vastly prefer hot worked stuff though, to anything cold worked.
Mostly, I simply don't understand why glass is used as a surface for drawings. And I prefer paintings to drawings.

[brucebanner]

No, the one i refer to is an old gent by the name of Charles R Hajdamach he wrote the 20th Century British Glass, sorts the glass out for the Broadfield house glass museum, i would love to have his knowledge. Will Farmer is offering his talents at the Ruskin centre this month in Stourbridge i might go along if i have the chance although almost all my stuff is in storage i have about 500 things around the house that are my own and not up forsale at the mo.

[flying free]

I'm sure you've seen this already but just in case not there is a note here about CH

'Charles Hajdamach was elected a Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology in March 2000 for services to glass and glassmaking. In 1980 he established Broadfield House Glass Museum which quickly became a major glass museum on the international scene. He expanded the collections from 1,500 to over 15,000 by 2003, actively purchasing twentieth century British glass including much contemporary work. In 1993 he and two others founded The Glass Association, a society of glass collectors, makers and curators now numbering about five hundred members nationally and internationally. He is an international lecturer on glass. - See more at: http://www.antiquecollectorsclub.com/uk/store/pv/9781851495870/20th-century-british-glass/charles-hajdamach#sthash.Hqblh0Wl.dpuf '

and obviously here also
http://www.hajdamach.com/pages/about.html
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