Topic: oriental sailing boat engraving

[essi]

In the past year I have seen two other examples of this pattern of engraving, one was on a very old looking spirit decanter and one on a bucket shaped vase. Does anybody know the origin of this glass or the engraving ?
Any help appreciated.
Tim

[flying free]

I think it might be possible that these are not antique.
It might be possible that it is very much more recent.
There has been another post on here about a similar piece.  I will try and find it.
m

[essi]

Thanks M, sometimes your gut feeling tells you that something is not quite right. saying that, the pieces I have seen have been very nice items of glass.
Tim

 

[ju1i3]

I've seen a few of these designs. I'm sure they're "reproductions". In a vintage style but don't think there's any original they are copying - just a look and feel. Tim, did you buy that? May I ask where and how it was described?

This is the latest one I see on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122073379218?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

[ju1i3]

this is the previous thread about these items http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,62443.msg350664.html#msg350664

[essi]

Thanks for update Julie, I did buy the tankard for not a lot of money at a small collectors fair in Oxfordshire. It was just described as continental engraved tankard.
The bucket vase I saw in a fine glass shop just off the portabella road in London. I did not speak to the owner about this vase at the time.
The decanter I saw was at an antiques fair in Oxfordshire. My eye was taken to it because it looked like a pale amber Stromberg decanter of the type I collect. This was a thick walled item . The dealer had no background on the item. The base wear looked convincing !.
This glass collecting lark is not easy.
Tim

[essi]

Not sure what this brings to the debate about this type of glass but I have just shone my u v light into my tankard and it came up with quite a strong yellowish green response. Do modern glass makers still use uranium in there mix?. I wonder if all the different types of glass that have been highlighted on the GMB are uranium glass?
Tim

[Lustrousstone]

Sounds more likely that it's manganese in the mix, that's a yellowish green glow, and it is still found in glass from China, though less common in modern glass from elsewhere

[ju1i3]

This one acknowledges it's a reproduction - from 1920's Belgium.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ETCHED-GLASS-DECANTER-IN-THE-ANTIQUE-VENETIAN-STYLE-/311705935179?hash=item48931f1d4b:g:Rm4AAOSwLF1X4AYg

[Lustrousstone]

I doubt these are that old. I saw a dessert set from this range in a charity shop today