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Pressed amber vase - ID = Ząbkowice
Chris Harrison:
Pip,
I just dug out a Taalari bowl I bought off Vidfletch ages ago.
They're really quite different animals.
The Taalari greek key design is much more prominent, and the base rim is smooth (fire-polished) rather than ground flat.
The vase has a similar feeling of quality about it, though. I like it very much. A pity noone can put a name to it. :(
This amber has a real orange tint to it, so perhaps it's Krosno, as Christine commented in another thread http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,9359.0.html.
Sklounion:
Hi Chris,
I was not ignoring this, feeling I could contribute nothing useful, but you bumped it.
This appears as "possibly SU or a Scandinavian factory" in Judith Miller's Collectables Price Guide 2007, for a reason.
I am not prepared to state that this is SU, when I have seen no documentary evidence to suggest that it is. This, and another vase which regularly appears on eBay with a pronounced foot and triangular patterning in a similar style to your vase, have defied a positive attribution, and the vase with triangles has been attributed by others, to SU and Ruda, amongst possible candidates.
regards,
Marcus
Chris Harrison:
Hi Marcus,
I was really just getting back to Pip, but thanks for chipping in your 2ยข, as they say across the Big Pond. Always appreciated.
I think I have one of the triangle pattern vases you mention. I recall that it featured in a long SU thread a while back: 7" or so tall, octagonal section foot, smoky green colour, nice balanced feel, and very conscientiously finished off.
I hadn't seen this here orange/amber creature anywhere before, but am very pleased to have made its acquaintance. Although the base is very well finished, it just doesn't seem to fit the SU "look and feel" - or the colour for that matter. I rather think the burnt orangey colour may be the key to identifiying its origins. Will keep my radar engaged...
Chris Harrison:
ah, frinstance, one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200078223765
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Pip:
What a co-incidence, I also have one of these vases and I asked Marcus about it since I had my doubts about it being Sklo Union. Going on the finish of the foot/base Marcus suggested possibly Polish production or Ruda Glasbruk but again, this is one of those undecided pieces. It just doesn't feel like SU glass.
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