Topic: Tall Vase w/ Seedy Purple "Half-Post" Casing

[Pinkspoons]

Picked this up today, but have absolutely no idea where to start looking for a maker beyond fruitless keyword searches in Google. Couldn't even say if it was made yesterday or 40 years ago - but it is nicely made.

It's 30cm / 12" (approximately - I forgot to measure it before packing it away). Clear glass at the core, with a partial "half-post" casing of a very seedy purple glass and a thick outer layer of clear again.

Finished to the base with a polished pontil mark.

Thanks for taking a look.

[Frank]

Wild and weird.... but half-post? That is a way of working, not a technique. Can you get an interior shot of the 'join' please.

[Pinkspoons]

I've always understood (German) half post to be the partial casing that facilitates a thicker body without adding further to the thickness of the neck of utilitarian items like bottles - although here it's obviously employed for decorative purposes, which is fairly common in Scandinavian (and possibly more broadly Northern European) art glass... although I've drawn a blank with this one.

Happy to be wrong, of course.

There's nothing much to see on the interior - it's smooth and even all the way down, with the business end of the additional layers being quite prominent on the exterior. But here's as good as I could get:

[Pinkspoons]

It's been mentioned elsewhere that a variation of this vase has been seen with an Ikea label...

I'm not sure that it would be related, or even very similar - the weight of the vase, its manufacturing processes and quality of finish would surely leave economies of scale tipping out of Ikea's favour. Plus I've not found a match in my pile of Ikea catalogues that I keep for this kind of reference.

But the pile isn't complete, and I'm open-minded on the subject. Ikea do throw out some curve balls occasionally.

Does it ring bells with anyone as an Ikea vase?

[chopin-liszt]

I use the term partially-cased and never, ever get in a mess with half posts/ technique or not. (I hate the term - it's far too confusing. I believe it does origininate from old bottle-making, when, if you know exactly what they did, it makes some sense.)

My first gut impresssion, before enlarging it, was; Studio? Maybe Jane Charles? Somebody of that ilk?

Ikea is an "unknown" to us.

[Pinkspoons]

I've had a couple of (very lovely) Jane Charles pieces, and they've both been signed... even if the signature turns up somewhere odd, like halfway up the side of the vase!

Have to say, though, studio glass for some reason never occurred to me - have been spending hours hunting through Scandinavian and German glass instead. I do have a few British and continental studio glass books squirreled away somewhere.

[chopin-liszt]

I saw a piece by her on Tuesday, which surprised me - it was a "Fin" vase, very like one she made for the SGS Exhibition in 2005. She has several "styles"; her work is very varied and I do see a fair bit in this Gallery, which I visit fairly frequently.
(This is the Fin vase from 2005. The new one in the strathearn Gallery in Crieff doesn't have the pinks in it.)

[glassobsessed]

I would put the Ikea suggestion on the back burner for now, for the simple reason that Ikea vases tend to turn up in large numbers and this appears to be the first we have seen (it is not in there current catalogue either).

John

[Pinkspoons]

This is the Fin vase from 2005.

It reminds me a little of an early Pauline Solven 'finned' vase that I had - only much much much more bright and cheerful!

 

I've not managed to find any similar pieces to my vase from my studio glass books, nor from the internet.

The closest match so far, in factory glass, has been F. Meydam for Leerdam... although these seem only to be in clear bubbly glass, so it's probably a no-go.

Ikea vases tend to turn up in large numbers

A good point!

[stew2u2]

i have one as well. no join seem smooth all the way down on the inside. its as tho a vase was blown then dipped into the coloured glass then that was cased.
here is mine http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,58529.0.html