Topic: ID for heavy blue glass bowl

[Roobarb]

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had any information on this bowl? It's 11" in diameter and 3.5" tall. It's very heavy. Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

[Roobarb]

Adding a picture of the base...

[Lustrousstone]

Modern and French I think. Arcoroc or similar

[chopin-liszt]

That's what I thought. Arcoroc, but I'm never sure about blues in pressed glass.
They confuse me by making me think the thing is a lot newer than it is. I don't know why.

Thanks for the bottom pic, Roobarb!

[Ekimp]

I had thought it was fused glass?

[chopin-liszt]

I think this blue bowl is possibly slumped, after the pattern was impressed onto the glass in a sheet glass roller sort of thing.
So we're talking fused glass temperatures, for the slumping, but there is no need for any fusing of bits together. 

  I didn't really mean pressed alone,  but pressed, slumped, machine moulded and... generally mass produced, as opposed to something hand or individually made.

[Ekimp]

Ok, sorry, I miss understood.

I thought it looked more complex than just pressed because of those fissures coming in from the circumference and imagined someone making it up from lots of rectangular pieces 

[chopin-liszt]

I have handled this sort of bowl, (but not in blue!) so I was aware of the texture and that it's not bits fused together.
Slumping would explain the uneven rim, where it starts folding over on itself in some bits and not others.

But to be sure, I'd need to see two, side by side, to check the "wiggles" are not all the same, because if they were it would be pressed. I can't remember if I've ever found mould seams on one, but I think not. 

[Roobarb]

Thank you both very much, this is all interesting to know. Just to add, there is a single bubble in the glass, the inside is smooth and the outside textured. Looking at it again after what you chopin-liszt said, I would say it is impressed also there's no seams. Does this sort of bowl have a name or is there a way to find others similar? Searched online for impressed and slumped but can't find anything like it. Not sure about it being Arcoroc as it's so heavy, and from my limited experience those pieces are quite light.

[Roobarb]

After some searching, the closest I've found is a Blenko bowl, so it may be that. Thank you both again for your help.