Topic: Riihimaki? Vase unusual colour

[robert1960]

Hi Chris
 I've never seen that colour or height/ proportion in a Riihmaki vase

Alhough it certainly has the 'look' about it  

I tihnk there is some difference of opinion as to what a ground and polished rim is, compared to a fire polished rim?

Robert

[Lustrousstone]

All these vases must have ground rims, as they have no base pontil marks. It's what happens next that's the question. They are then either polished on a wheel, which gives a lovely shine but leaves a sharp (I don't mean sharp as in able to cut you) angle on the edge. Sometimes these edges are also removed by grinding then polishing, which gives a chamfer to the rim (i.e., four angles). Or the top is whizzed under a very hot flame to add shine and remove the angles. This at is how mine is done.

[robert1960]

Ah!

Ok, that explains it better to me, Thanks!  

 The cheaper 'export' vases seem to have had the 'flame' treatment, the middling ones are ground and chamfered, much like, say, a Whitefriars coffin vase

Only a few, and I suppose where the design and cost demands it, seem to be tooled and hot worked to form a rounded lip.

Incidentally, the only Riihimaki vase I own with a pontil mark is the largest size of Sun vase