Topic: An aventurine glass aquamarine colour glass bottle

[wiggy131]

Hi, can anyone recognise this small aventurine glass  vase in a Aquamarine blue colour? It has a pontil on the base, but it has a faint seam line in the glass at one side.

It would be great to find out more about it, and the age.
Thanks
Vickie

[chopin-liszt]

  It's not aventurine, it has been covered in silver foil, then blown a bit more, which breaks the foil up. It's just tarnished on the surface - rubbing it with your thumb should be enough to clean it up a bit. 
I do not understand why you'd have a mould seam of any description on a small round vase with a pontil scar. The scar comes from it being broken off the pontil rod after being blown; a mould blown piece won't have that, unless it was worked further after being taken out of the mould and this is not that complex.
I'm sorry, I don't have a clue who made it.

[wiggy131]

Hi Sue, thanks for the info, It will give me a start to who may of made it. Do glass blowers blow bottles into a mould to get a uniform size?
Best Wishes
Vickie

[chopin-liszt]

Ordinary bottles and lots of decorative bottles will be mass-produced and mould blown in big factories, but this is Studio Glass. Blown without a mould.

[wiggy131]

Hi Sue I came across this website http://www.thegildedcurio.com/item-Italian-811.html
 could it be scavo technique by Mario Gambaro?
I tracked down his place of work, so I emailed the images, so I'll let you know if I get a reply!
Thanks
Vickie

[chopin-liszt]

Scavo is an acid treatment of the surface. That piece has broken silver foil on it, as your little bottle does, but I can't see any other similarities. 

[wiggy131]

Hi, I just had confirmation from the firm that it isn't him!
Never mind, its a pretty little vase!
Best Wishes
Vickie