Topic: Pink Satin Cased Glass Vase Identification - Stevens and Williams?

[glassamore]

Thanks Flying Free

The Harrach site is very interesting its description is very close to my little vase ...

"...the satin glass surface has an iridescent sheen .Milk glass inner layer is covered in a green glass layer( Mine is pink ) that is deeper at the top and and shades to almost clear at the base in between this is an air trapped layer of circular bubbles that have been stretched towards the top when the glass has been hand shaped... there is stamp on the polished pontil the Harrach three feather mark"

Could my pontil mark have three feathers or is it an extension of the pattern?

This is so interesting to me and the knowledge I gain is so valuable.

Thanks again
Glass Amore (Gary)

[flying free]

No yours doesn't have the three feathers Harrach mark on it unfortunately.

The pontil mark also doesn't look completely polished either but it's quite difficult to tell because of the decor on the vase.

I would  come down on the side of it being Bohemian rather than English but I don't really know for sure.

m

[chopin-liszt]

  I can see some blues appearing, towards the top of that last pic - is that an artifact of photography, or can you find colours in what you are calling the milk glass when light is coming through it?
If you can find sunset colours - fire and blues when light is coming through opaque white glass, it is opalescent, not milk.

[glassamore]

Thanks Flying Free and Chopin-Liszt

Looks like I am going Bohemian thanks for all the information.

The last photo:- There is no Blue in the glass its a refection. There are no colours in the white glass so going on the information given I would say it is milk glass.

The only thing is the date which I guess could of been made yesterday or 100 years ago. How on earth do you tell the age of glass? Shape and colour must be the only thing one can go on. Or find similar which is dated - but they maybe wishful thinking saying something is older than what it really is!

Thank you all - so informative and knowledgeable - I have lots to learn.

With Best Regards

Glass Amore (Gary)

[chopin-liszt]

  Old glass feels different to newer. Recipes for the metal have been changed and improved over the years.
I can't really describe it too well - old glass is somehow more "brittle" and often more finely blown than newer - but modern makers use a lot of lead crystal - which is a lot easier to work but you end up with something thicker, more solid and heavier.
That's just very much in general - you need to get to know how each different sort of glass feels and how it sounds when tapped with a fingernail.
Nothing can substitute getting to FEEL the glass. We have had people here who even like to lick it. 

[Lustrousstone]

I'm going with Bohemian too (although mid-20th century Italian is another option)

[flying free]

Something has popped into my head.  I think Glassobsessed showed a Franz Welz airtrap piece  with these half moon airtrap patterns on.  I might have misremembered and it may have been spiral stripes not moons but I'll try and find it.

[chopin-liszt]

Last night, I was watching a rerun of the tv series "Heroes", and in about the last minute of episode 15 of series 1, there was a blue and white swagged, satinated lamp base sitting on a table which immediately made me think of this piece.
The programme was on bbc iplayer, and my machine doesn't like rewinding, so I didn't get a second look.
But it did make me wonder if your vase might be American? 
I don't think this is airtrap, is it, m?

[Lustrousstone]

Yes, it's airtrap

[chopin-liszt]

I'm seeing shiney swags and matte swags - but no bubbles or air.
Is there not supposed to be air in airtrap?