Topic: Heavy Murano or Scand or Brit vase?

[createdbear]

Hello,
Can anyone ID this vase for me please?
It weighs over a kilo and has a perfectly round polished pontil in its base (similar to the Whitefriars type). I don't think it's Whitef but am not aware of any of Italian makers who did these round polished ponts although it is very Sommerso in its appearance. One of those that could be Ital, Scand or Brit. Thanks for any help.

[catshome]

Hmmm......Vicke Lindstrand, or Orrefors, and Strombergshyttan all spring to mind.  Can we have some measurements please?

Thanks
Cat

[glassobsessed]

What looks like the same vase in the same colour is shown on page 11 of Scandinavian Glass Fire & Sea, that one is around 18cm tall and made by Smalandshyttan, my guess at designer would be Josef Schott.

John

[The Glass Staircase]

I have a similar vase which I thought was Orrefors. Mines has a flat polished base though. Does your vase have the same sides as the second picture I have posted?

[createdbear]

Cat, the vase is 13.5 cm tall and 12 cm at the widest point & the base is 6.5 cm wide (from point to point). Staircase, yes, it is exactly the same.

[createdbear]

John, I wonder if Smal. made a large and small version of the vase. I guess the main clue here would be the pontil on the base. So perfectly circular. Do you know if they had the round cut on the base of their wares?

[chopin-liszt]

A perfectly circular polished mark would indicate quality, it is a work intensive thing to do, but not any particular maker.
Loads and loads of different makers did/do it.

[Lustrousstone]

A polished pontil mark in an already polished base indicates that the pontil rod broke off too deeply to finish with a flat base without taking too much off. Quite common and not poor practice

[createdbear]

Well, been Googling again this afternoon and found one the same but with a red inner...Josef Schott for Smalandshyttan! The website was a glass based sales website (I won't reveal the name) but it was a site I hadn't heard of. Going now...Emmerdale is on...I wonder if Annie Sugden ever kept the blue Riimaki Pablo vase that was in her kitchen years ago!

[chopin-liszt]

  Why not "reveal the name"? 
We're all interested in glass here, so if somebody's selling it, we might like to know - and the publicity is a nice "thanks" for information you got from looking at their website and it also means we can check the source of the information to see how accurate it is. 
Links to places which show glass are fine to post.

But images should not be taken from another site and posted, that would get us into copyright trouble.