Topic: Huge 10" Murano vase? ID pls.

[wy699usa]

Hello All, this is a huge vase in unique shape (10" tall, 2.5KG), flat and polished base. I feel it was from Murano, but I might be wrong. Any ideas? If it is from Murano, please identify potential maker. Thanks.

[chopin-liszt]

  It looks very Czech/Bohemian. I would start with Skrdlovice.
Sorry, but I can't quite make out what the exact surface texture is, to start looking my books.

[wy699usa]

Thanks Sue! The surface is kind of smooth, not the knobbly feel. Maybe you are right. It is so heavy and the colours are green and transit to amber with a continuous shade. It is a very strange shape as well. I guess you may be correct. There is no mark/sign at all.

[chopin-liszt]

The colours are quite typically Bohemian. The design would be specified by the kind of surface texture - which looks a bit loopy.
I've had a look in my book (Beranek and Skrdlovice; Legends of Czech Glass by Robert Bevan Jones and Jindrich Parik - both members here but don't post terribly often.)
I think Jan Beranek might be a good name to start off with.
There are other folk here who know a lot more about this kind of glass than I do.
I'm sure somebody will be able to help.