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Glass / Rectangular blue and clear bowl. Is it Murano please?
« Last post by createdbear on Yesterday at 06:01:50 PM »
Never seen a piece like this before. A rectangular bowl with faceted corners. The well is darkish blue and the rest is faintly tinged blue NOT clear. It is heavy, weighing nearly 1.7 kilos. Roughly5 inches long by 3 inches deep. The base is flat and polished. It is a bowl rather than an ashtray (no indents at either end for a cigarette. Can anyone ID it please? It shouts Murano but the colouring, especially the 'clear' part makes me wonder. Thank you as always for any help. The photo URL starts as ebay as I took it with some other pics of stuff to go on ebay. It is not a piece that is on ebay.
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Glass / Etruscan Vases ?
« Last post by bat20 on April 26, 2024, 02:40:17 PM »
Hi,a bit of a miracle finding these two 12” high vases recently !,but there they were . They have large polished pontils and wear that could easily date them to around 1850, they are a good weight and ring nicely when flicked and one is a tad heavier than the other .I know it can be tricky to attribute them easily but with everything taken into account I think they are probably made in England, ..they have rounded rims I should add. Looking through my Charles Hajdamach I noticed on page 101 (!!?)a very similar motif illustrated by Richardson glass,but I suppose it could have been copied .Any thoughts most welcome .
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Glass / Re: Lauscha lamp work lantern with drunken man in uranium
« Last post by thewingedsphinx on April 25, 2024, 08:27:29 PM »
I’ll do some close up piccies when I have chance, I thought these in this link are the closest comparison so far.
From Jaroslav Brychta

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1567825981/jaroslav-brychta-glass-figurines?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brychta&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&content_source=dbec21818c40035b7196940ace50fd775af2e78c%253A1567825981&organic_search_click=1
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Glass / Re: Piano insulator Percival Yates & Vickers or Crown Crystal Glass Co Australia?
« Last post by flying free on April 25, 2024, 08:12:31 PM »
I need to try and find mine to see if it's lightweight.  I don't think it was but could be mistaking it with the uranium Percival Vickers one I had/have as no idea what I've done with that either.
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Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria / Re: Czech glass / mnemonics drawings
« Last post by fontanazul on April 25, 2024, 08:09:57 PM »
+++ flying free  :)
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ZPÍVAJÍCÍ FONTÁNA = Singing fountain.
                   1957
.- A young woman, an art student, falls in love with her teacher.
.- A restricted ideas competition is called for a fountain in the Czechoslovakia pavilion at Expo-Brussels 58.
.- The teacher and other architects prepare proposals.
.- The Professor invites his student, now his wife, to participate in the contest.
.- Four projects remain finalists.
.- Finally Dana Hlobilová, the young student, wins the contest with his ZPÍVAJÍCÍ FONTÁNA
.- This would be the start of a long and complicated journey.



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Glass / Re: Piano insulator Percival Yates & Vickers or Crown Crystal Glass Co Australia?
« Last post by thewingedsphinx on April 25, 2024, 07:22:05 PM »
PV as in Percival Vickers. These below are called finger patterns, they were made by many manufacturers in England and Europe. I think the Portieux Vallerysthal catalog does show a finger pattern.
Below are two Percival Vickers on the left. On the right is an unknown green one which is quite light weight in comparison and common and then the brown one by FMJ from Belgium.
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Glass / Re: Black glass enamelled ginger jar
« Last post by NevB on April 25, 2024, 01:45:43 PM »
I think you'll find it very difficult to find a replacement. It's hard to see the detail of the enamelling because you photo is out of focus but it might possibly be Bohemian, you don't say whether it was bought new so it might be anything from late Victorian to mid 20th. century.
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Glass Paperweights / Paperweight /shot glass
« Last post by bat20 on April 25, 2024, 12:49:10 PM »
Hi ,I’ve posted this glass on this site before with no luck,so I thought I’d give it a whirl on the paperweight section and hope someone recognises the canes ,although this section does seem slightly deserted these days .My uneducated guess it’s English and possibly second half of the 19th century.It has a lot of wear and a broken pontil, there are obvious tooling marks.Thanks .
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Glass / Re: Piano insulator Percival Yates & Vickers or Crown Crystal Glass Co Australia?
« Last post by flying free on April 25, 2024, 08:32:00 AM »
Thanks for the tip Ivo.  I'll take another look around.  It could have been something I spotted in Pressglas-Korrespondenz, so I could be here for weeks trying to find it :)
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Glass / Re: Piano insulator Percival Yates & Vickers or Crown Crystal Glass Co Australia?
« Last post by Ivo on April 25, 2024, 07:33:53 AM »
PV as in Portieux Valérysthal?
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