Topic: Can anyone give any pointers about this small handkerchief vase?

[seanduxbury]

Hi.  Can anyone give any ideas about the small handkerchief vase.  It looks as if it's made of two pieces of glass fused (is that the right term?) together.  The blue I think has been applied to one of the pieces and (I think) runs through the centre of the piece where they have been joined.  The outside of the vase is quite smooth with the 'bubbles' being slightly raised.  Found in Yorkshire it measures 3.5 inches at the highest point and about 5.5 inches at the widest point.  It is quite thick - about 5mm.  Weighs almost 300 gms.  Any help much appreciated.

[Ivo]

Fused and slumped, but recently.

[chopin-liszt]

Portmeirion were making some things in this sort of style and technique recently, (as in the '00s) platters and household sort of decorative useful things, but I've not seen this colour before. They were normally window glass green.
I can't find any images online, but my brother has a load of them, found in TKMaxx.

And I've seen Italian glass which uses this technique in TKMaxx too, but it tends to have copper inclusions and enamel pictures incorporated.

[Anne]

Lots of warm glass makers make similar pieces, they are really difficult to identify unless you get a signed or labelled one. My friend Penni Simpson (Fusion Glass Art in Cartmel, Cumbria) makes them but this does not look like the colours she uses.

[Ivo]

India I think.