Topic: Holmegaard - Mistaken Identity...

[Connie]

Nic - I would be suspicious of that pale blue aqua one.  It is very similar color to the vases that Target had in their store last year.

Target vases

I looked briefly but it is too early (before 5 am) for me to concentrate. 

[palo400]

I have two of these bottle vases one blue and the other orange complete with the ball tops.
Compared with the original Holmegaard gul vases they are poor quality i.e. white casing, colour and the lip is narrow.
 
Italian copies in my opinion.

[Pinkspoons]

There is some room for variation in the Gulvase rim - I've got two early cased ones in this size (one is white/white and the other is yellow/yellow - both with original labels), and their rims are both different sizes. The yellow/yellow one is pretty close to the odd baby-blue one in this auction and the white one is broader and very flat.

[Pinkspoons]

I contacted the seller, and he confirmed that it is a very pale baby blue with a muddied white interior - so it's fairly certainly a knock-off, I'd say.

[Anne E.B.]

This one's a real is it is or is it ain't?

I've seen these being sold on the web but they are new. I have a feeling they were from Italy or Poland () - I'll see if I can find my jottings.  The lip is not quite perpendicular, unlike the originals, and the white interior is much thicker at the rim edge too if I remember right.

[palo400]

Another one often sold as Holmegaard.

This was moved on on a buy it now as Holmegaard at £39.99 though the seller new it was not.
                                                                                                                                                                              http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110052217226                                           

[Sue C]

Hi Nic, thought you might like this on eBay 170073861403  also look at their other one 170073849235

[Pinkspoons]

Thanks.

Another "gull" vase. Grr. I think these ones were produced in Italy too - I've seen them in cased glass. Although Holmegaard did actually produce a Gulvase-ish shape like this, with a shanked stopper, in cased glass - but they're fairly rare and the rims are quite different.

The second one is Bo Borgstrom for Aseda, I would say (not really my field, though), although Holmegaard did churn out some vases with these kinds of colours and utilising the more bland of Aseda-esque shapes in the 'Harlekin' series by Anja Kjær in 1994.

PS: Could a moderator please move these two posts to the Holmegaard Mistaken Identity thread on the main board? TIA.

[Pinkspoons]

Japan? Wow, I really would have guessed at Italian for it.

[Sue C]

It was the colour or should i say colours of the second one i was wondering about? did the base look slightly green to you? it could just be the way thi photo was taken, reflection from the screen, but if not, two tone?