Topic: Orange Peacock trailed vase help please.

[brucebanner]

This little vase is an orange/pink in colour, with a polished pontil and wear to the base and outer glass, the rim is polished flat.

It's thick glass but has a nice ring to it.

It's 3 3/4 inches in height and 3 inches across the rim.

[keith]

Can't say I've ever seen one of those in that colour before, the polished rim makes me think Bohemian but who knows, interesting piece,

[flying free]

is it my imagination or does that base have some sort of polished pontil area?  ( I say area as it doesn't look like a perfectly round pontil mark, but it does look as though it has been polished a) where a pontil rod may have been removed and left a scar and b) where the ends of the trails finish.
If so, does it then have a polished pontil mark and a cut and polished rim?

Also is it iridescent, or does it have some form of 'oilspot' finish on the amber? or is that just the photograph please?
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[brucebanner]

Hello M, it has a polished pontil mark and it's orange in colour not amber and it's my window sill creating the iridescent look. It's got some age as there are signs of use all over the glass and a good amount of wear to the base for such a small vase.

I've had good look on the internet and in the books i own and cannot find anything similar.

[flying free]

ok, so an orange vase, not iridescent, with green peacock eye trails,  a polished pontil mark and also a cut and polished rim.

I'm a bit curious about the cut and polished rim being there together with the polished pontil mark.  Why would it have both?
Is this normal in say English pieces made to have a lid maybe?

I'm asking because I have a Webb Corbett Agate Flambe bowl that has a polished pontil mark and a cut and polished rim.  Despite me believing it should also have a lid, I still feel slightly odd about the cut and polished rim.  Because why would they do that?  It's not necessary. 
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[brucebanner]

One of the eyes has been polished (ive only just noticed), perhaps it's an experiment or end of day piece of glass?.

Or someone has tried to repair it, take a chip out of the rim?

[Lustrousstone]

A cut and polished rim is not that uncommon, despite it not being necessary. It just means that the rim wasn't fire polished after shaping and other hot work on the punty rod after the after blowing iron.

Chris's rim was done professionally; the eye polishing looks less professional and is perhaps a repair.

Orange or amber is just a matter of perception. That looks very older Stuart amber to me. I also think we've had green peacock eyes on amber before

[flying free]

Maybe it was meant to have a lid though?  It's a sort of shape that might have had a metal jam pot type lid maybe?

agree that Stuart did do the amber and green I believe, but I've been searching for an example to link here and not been able to find one 
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