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But not made in the old-fashioned way, using dangerous chemicals.
The difference is kind of like the difference between oils and acrylics.

The crystalex vase looks like Matthey crinkles - and is on exactly the right sort of item, but melted a bit more than the "sharp sugar-like" stuff that was on the squash glasses and hyacinth vases.
So if that is the same as your vase, I imagine it would be "well-melted" Matthey Crinkles after all.

Nev, Scavo is a very complicated and dangerous technique used to make glass appear old and having been buried for centuries.
Although there are modern, safer ways of producing a similar appearance used by companies such as LaFiore and it still seems to be called scavo.
I'm not getting the sort of detailed description of the technique I'd like to find, but I have found this discussion about trying to do it, with loads of warnings, on a forum of beadmakers.

http://www.lampworketc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9579

This jug was copied not only in America but also in Belgium.

Small article from my website:
http://www.victorianpressedglass.com/gallery_mystery.htm#14

Mike

Sometimes called 'Sugar glass', the distinctive texture was created using a technique of glass enamels called 'Crinkles' which was patented by the Johnson Matthey company in 1938. It was probably also used by Kristalunie Maastricht to produce the Oranje-appel vaas by W.J.Rozendaal in the same year. After the war it was sold to glass factories under license in various countries, including Chance Glass (UK).

After the war, (and Kristalunie's decision to abandon the product), de Rupel produced these colourful textured glasses in large quantities. They are an iconic element of 1950's table glass.

The individual layers for crinkles and gilding were applied by hand, and although most Boom glasses seem to have four glided bands at the top. The glasses were made in a wide range of colours, which were probably selected 'to order' according to the wishes of wholesale buyers. Design and colour choices were to some extent also left to the individual decorators.
Tim

Yes. Those horrible feeling squash glasses. 
Through muslin puffing of powder would produce the effect you have. I'm not getting much off the web, I know about this because I have the Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre book, and it was in the days of Daisy Machaig-Jones starting up with Fairyland that she encountered this way of applying the enamel background.
You'll find the texture on the dragon bowls that slightly pre-empted Fairyland.

As you can imagine, the melting powder might well run on a ceramic item when in the oven, but I don't think it's neccessarily going to do that on another glass surface.

It's the only way I can think of that your sort of much smaller and smoother than the sugar crystal sharp bits of the crinkles, could have been applied successfully.

https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1338710398/blue-fruit-lustre-bowl-wedgwood-designed?ref=sold_out-7&frs=1&logging_key=1f13266ca512ed5e0c25b5c837cf00ba934d7206%3A1338710398