Topic: Heavy pink vase with white controlled swirls

[Liam59]

Pretty heavy in weight, ground pontil as in images. No signatures visible but looks a good piece.
Height 20.5cm top width 18cm. English? Italian?

[NevB]

I posted this similarly shaped/size vase a while ago and am still not sure who made it but would lean towards Powell/Whitefriars.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,69808.0.html

[Liam59]

Just looking through my copy of "20th Century Glass" and on page 95, plate 185 shows vases with a similar wave pattern made by "Gray-Stan" glass, what do others think?

[Lustrousstone]

Which 20th Century Glass; there's lot of books with that title.

Nev your vase isn't Powell/Whitefriars; their uranium was limited to straw opal and their output is very well documented

[Liam59]

It is the book by Charles R Hajdamach for the Antiques Collectors Club.
Thanks

[flying free]

I don't know if it IS Gray-stan, however as soon as I saw it yesterday that is the name that popped straight into my head


I'll have a look through all the Gray-Stan stuff I have here and see if there anything comes to light.  Will have to be this evening though.

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[Liam59]

Thanks flying free. From what I have gleaned, apparently all pieces were either etched "Grey-Stan" or the designers name and mine is not. Could still be I suppose.

[flying free]

No, I have a definite piece of Gray-Stan glass - large piece, and it's not marked.

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[flying free]

I've just been through all my resources apart from one which I can't find and I'm afraid there is nothing to match it either in shape or colour or decor - the pulls/feathers on the decor don't look quite right somehow.
  I found one piece with a similar shaped foot/base but only the one out of the many I looked at. 
I'm not convinced it is Gray-Stan.  I'm also not entirely sure the pontil finish is right.  So on balance I'm thinking probably not at the moment.

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[Liam59]

Thanks again, I will just have to keep looking around and asking, someone may nudge me in the right direction.