Topic: Mystery smoked heavy bowl vase - Walther lookalike

[chasdevlin]

Hi
I  picked this up recently and thought it may be of good age, but am now worried it might be contemporary. It's of a smokey brown colour and has quite a lot going - applied decoration, recessed ovals. It seems to have characteristics of pressed glass and hot worked glass, perhaps it's both.
I find it quite striking anyway so I'd love to find more. It most resembles pieces in the Walther Irene range as seen in here: https://www.glas-musterbuch.de/VEB-Sachsenglas-1954.177.0.html. But there are differences that rule it out.

It's 6 inches/ 15 cm in height and about 8 inches across the top of the vase/bowl. All or any ideas welcome!

[chasdevlin]

I forgot to say it weighs 1.2 kg and has a good ting when tapped!

[chasdevlin]

Anybody have any ideas?

[Anne]

Not a design I recall seeing anywhere in my catalogue trawling Chas.

[chasdevlin]

Thanks Anne. I'm beginning to think it's quite modern.

[Anne]

It doesn't strike me as being very modern to be honest, Chas. I'd put it anywhere between 1945 and 1965-ish based on its style, but you never know till we find the catalogue.