Topic: Iridescent (bronze?) hand blown bowl info please

[chriss]

Hi this bowl Interior has a similar surface to the iridescent carnival glass (not stretched or pulled though) to me, but the exterior is like Thomas Webb bronze glass I think? It's got a rough pontil to the base so is hand blown and is 8.5" wide across the widest point. Is it a Thomas Webb piece or something else please? Thanks 

[keith]

What colour is the glass when held to the light, Webb is usually green but not always, so I've been told 

[chriss]

Hi the glass around the pontil scar appears to be a very dark blue/purple almost black ground. I took the strong  torch within my phone to a dimmed room with closed curtains and tried to shine the torch through the glass which didn't let much light through at all. The result was a small red dot 

[keith]

Ok, any chance of a close up of the surface and pontil mark, 

[chriss]

Yes here's the outside of the glass which the bronze hue shows different intensities depending on the angle/light and condition, the base also has a lot of shelf wear so I believe that it's got some age 😀

[chriss]

This shows the inside of the glass with only a bit of a bronze hue to the base, but quite shiny glass. Hope they help, and let me know if you need any more 😀 Thanks

[keith]

Not sure now if it is Webbs, the pontil mark and surface finish look different to what I'm familiar with, that doesn't mean it isn't though, these are pic's of what I'm pretty sure is a  Webb bronze, see what you think,

[chriss]

Hi Keith, thanks for your reply 😀 The pontil scar to the base of my bowl is recessed quite deep in places which may account for it not being ground down that much but that resembles the base for your last pic, but the surface of the glass you have shown has a fine crackle like texture I think, which my bowl doesn't? Not sure if this leads it totally away from Webb or not?    Chriss

[chriss]

Sorry reposted the closer pic of the pontil scar by mistake 

[dirk.]

Could it be Kralik?