Topic: I found this in a French flea market yesterday

[Wynkin]

It was absolutely filthy so I washed it.

It has either the smallest handle ever or it's for a piece of string?

Any ideas what it is?

[Paul S.]

Hi  -  very intriguing  -  can you say please what the dull grey coating is ………….   paint or some other coating that could be removed, or simply the surface of the piece has been made very rough by abrasion?           Assume the walls are very thick  -  is that correct.

[Anne E.B.]

I just wonder if it is one of those reproductions of archaeological digs?  I remember having a vase with a Scavo technique surface.  I had to look the term up to correctly describe the technique and I found this in The Corning Museum of Glass Dictionary of terms which states "Scavo (Italian, "excavation").  A technique involving the application to the surface of an object, of substances that, when heated to about 800 degrees C. fuse and create an effect similar to weathering thereby imitating glass from an archeological excavation." 

I found this too which might be of interest a vase with two absolutely tiny handles https://www.vintageloveantiques.com/products/pink-jug-by-murano-venitian-glass

 

[chopin-liszt]

Lafiore uses a scavo surface coating like this, and I have seen vases with small handles, but not teeny-tiny ones like this, and I'm unsure about the base colour and general shape being anything Lafiore.
But I can see rows of these, hanging up in a kitchen. 

A posh small serving pot for an individual portion of sauce or jus in a rustic restaurant?

[Wynkin]

The object is not heavy and the coating is like sand or a heavy deposit of something as though it's been underground or underwater.  One thing suggested to me was Italian glass where it is dipped it in sand and fired, apparently it would normally go red, but by starving it of oxygen it goes blue. This has a bluish tint. I don't think it's ancient as the glass that shows is glossy.

[flying free]

I'd go with Sue on Lafiori .  However not sure about the pontil mark (Sue don't they usually have a stone ground pontil mark?)
I also have a piece/had a piece (Just looked up to see it and it's not there anymore! think I've given it away as a present), that was very lightweight blue with this type of finish on it if I recall.  I can't remember what it was.
Was there some kind of this type of glass finish and lighter weight coming from Egypt at one point?

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[Wynkin]

It does look like glass that is made to look ancient, but it's light weight.

[flying free]

I think it's very contemporary.

Possibly a studio maker.  These finishes seem to have been in vogue a few years ago.
Maybe French.

Is it inordinately light?  Mine was.  Felt like a lampwork bottle. I thought I'd posted about it on here but can't find the thread now.

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[Wynkin]

Yes it is lightweight.

[BlueOctopus]

In the 70th they where in Hamburg quite en vogue: studio Glas from Israel. Very light like lamp work and after that sanded, that means somehow they have a layer of Sand. It is not sandblasted. These 2 I own have completely different shape and color, but surface and lightness fit together. Mine are in a very nice green but in the surface like the vase in the link

https://picclick.de/%C2%A0GROSE-Glas-Vase-gesandet-Antik-Syrien-Israel375-cm-302855634710.html

Monika