Author Topic: Mystery art deco blue/turquoise uranium glass vase. (Read 12278 times)

David E · « **Reply #10 on:** August 24, 2006, 07:40:59 AM »

Quote from: "Anne E.B."

That's a really nice looking vase Pat . I'd love to know what is written on the base. Anyone know?

Is it writing? Could be just marks made after the base was formed.

josordoni · « **Reply #11 on:** August 24, 2006, 08:01:30 AM »

Pat, that big vase you posted was described as optic ribbed - I thought optic ribbing was the fine ribbing on the inside only - like on Victorian vases.

Can these big curves be optic too?

Pat · « **Reply #12 on:** August 24, 2006, 08:53:27 AM »

Well I wouldn't have called it optic rib, the seller obvioudly did. I thought someone may have seen that writing before and the vase was similar.

josordoni · « **Reply #13 on:** August 24, 2006, 09:57:55 AM »

Is there a standard way to describe these sort of lumpy curved vases?

Lumpy curved doesnt sound very commercially attractive... :lol:

AlmasAttic · « **Reply #14 on:** August 24, 2006, 10:37:53 AM »

Quote from: "josordoni"

Is there a standard way to describe these sort of lumpy curved vases?

Lumpy curved doesnt sound very commercially attractive... :lol:

I call them "bulbous" for want of a better word :wink:
I sell a lot of the Dunbar and Jenkins and Louie glass pitchers with these concentric bulbous rings, and that is usually how I describe them

josordoni · « **Reply #15 on:** August 24, 2006, 10:44:24 AM »

Oh yes I agree, concentric bulbous rings sounds quite good!

It's like the old management speak games, you take any three of a list of geeky words and put them together to make new things to say in management meetings and impress the boss....

Perhaps we should have a game in the cafe, to list up all the possibilities we can them make our descriptions from for ebay!

Glen · « **Reply #16 on:** August 24, 2006, 11:20:37 AM »

Similar shaped vases in Carnival Glass (found mainly in Australia) are known as "Melon Rib". The expression has been in use for many decades.

Glen

josordoni · « **Reply #17 on:** August 24, 2006, 11:38:13 AM »

Now that is strange - when I wrote Lumpy Curves I was tempted to put Melon in there, but didn't as I thought it wouldn't be right - that term is usually used for corves that are vertically divided when talking about porcelain (lots of Victorian/Edwardian cups are Low or High Melon shaped).

Interesting to know it can be used for horizontal divisions as well.

Lustrousstone · « **Reply #18 on:** August 24, 2006, 11:43:08 AM »

I wonder if this is Dutch or Belgian. Ivo?

AlmasAttic · « **Reply #19 on:** August 24, 2006, 12:01:35 PM »

Glen
I know the Fenton "Melon Rib" pattern, but there, the "bulbous bits" are vertical, not horizontal
here is a Fenton Melon Rib jug to illustrate