Topic: French Green Opaline Vases - ?Baccarat?

[antonizz]

Hello everybody,

I just bought these 2 opaline vases online.
They have a very nice green color.

I immediately thought about Baccarat when I saw them,
but that's really only based on a feeling I had.

Could anybody tell me more about it?

I believe they are:
*French.
*Ca. 1860-1880 maybe.
*Handblown.
*Pontilmark has been polished.
*3 Gold rims.  (bottom, top, and middle).
*Outside of the vase has somekind of accid finish.


Thank you very much!
R. Antonis

[antonizz]

More pics

[flying free]

do they have a very small polished pontil mark in the middle of the base?
Your photograph isn't clear enough to see it 

And are the rims cut and polished, or are they rounded and firepolished?

And are they uranium glass?

M

[antonizz]

I have made new pictures of the pontil, and the rims.

[antonizz]

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[flying free]

I think it is mould blown (no polished pontil mark - the base is just how it came out of the mould I think) and the rim is cut and polished/gilded.

This is not a method I associate with French glass (though that does not mean it isn't).
But I would think this is Bohemian.  Perhaps something like Josephinenhutte?

Probably 1860s is about right and have you tested to see if they are uranium glass under a blacklight?


m

[antonizz]

Mould blown could be possible. You're the expert ! 

I have tested them with a very small blacklight (from a loupe),
and I don't believe it's uranium glass.

By the way I'm still very happy with these vases.
I've had a very beautiful green opaline box in the past, that would fit these perfectly.
Unfortunately I had to sell it a while ago.

+ I payed €40,00 for these, including shipment (within the Netherlands).
So I think I did well.

I was just shook when I followed the track&trace code, saw it was delivered a couple of houses further on my block.
Then I went there to pick them up..  Somebody else has picked them up earlier that day!! 
Turned out the shipper filled in the wrong house number 

[flying free]

I am very definitely not an expert ... and very far from it.

I could be wrong.  But that is where I would start searching first

m

[Lustrousstone]

I'm pretty sure they are uranium glass. And I'm with M on Bohemian

[antonizz]

Here are the pictures I took in the dark, with the blacklight.
The vase doesn't really change colors.
I assume it should light up like the dirty spots in the vase do. [last picture]