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Title: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 06, 2007, 10:12:39 PM

Hi, I was recommended to ask for help here to identify a pair of glass vases I know nothing about. I've never seen anything quite like the and am not sure I'd want to again.
http://www.uglyvase.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/alienvase.jpg
They're about seven inches high, the green part is very fine glass although the base clear glass is more substantial, there's a bit more information at
http://www.uglyvase.co.uk/2007/07/the-aliens-scary-vases.html

Many thanks
Chris

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Anne on August 06, 2007, 10:20:28 PM

Glad you decided to take the plunge Chris. :) I'm sure someone here will be able to tell you something about them...   ;)

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 06, 2007, 10:22:34 PM

Lynne reckoned "probably Bohemian or Czech, possibly English, but VERY Victorian" and that's about all I know (except that they're a very acquired taste!)

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Pip on August 06, 2007, 10:23:29 PM

What size are they Chris?  :huh:

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 06, 2007, 10:25:39 PM

7" tall
3" across the base
2.5" across the widest part of the green glass

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Carolyn Preston on August 08, 2007, 12:38:46 AM

Quote from: uglyvase on August 06, 2007, 10:22:34 PM

Lynne reckoned "probably Bohemian or Czech, possibly English, but VERY Victorian" and that's about all I know (except that they're a very acquired taste!)

I'm with Lynne. They are just grotesque enough to be Victorian  >:D

Carolyn

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 08, 2007, 08:07:27 AM

I think Lynne is spot on. England is the less likely contender.

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 08, 2007, 08:26:46 AM

Many thanks you guys. These really are horribly but I'm kinda fond of them. I still don't know what was in the head of the guy that made em, they have to have been on drugs or something  :o

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 08, 2007, 09:01:15 AM

That's 19th century design for you. I also think it was a period of experimenting with shapes and colours in glass and when form began to come before function for the middle classes. It was all hand-made so could be as wacky as the maker liked in a way that perhaps ceramics couldn't at the time. Look at some of the Scandinavian 20th century glass, in reality it's equally as wacky

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 08, 2007, 09:03:33 AM

I do like the unusual rather than the mundane, if it's not wacky (and a bit ugly) I'm not interested  :D

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Cathy B on August 08, 2007, 09:37:54 AM

I must have weird aesthetics, because I quite like them!

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Lustrousstone on August 08, 2007, 09:42:34 AM

Me too

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 08, 2007, 09:50:49 AM

PMSL, you lot are nuts  :clap:

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Pip on August 08, 2007, 12:11:14 PM

Oh yeah they're all nuts but ever so nice with it  :P. 

Chris, if you ask nicely maybe someone on here will show you their 'triffid' vases - something tells me you might like them too  ;D

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 08, 2007, 12:12:33 PM

Triffid vase???? Oh come on... this I have to see  :D

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Anne on August 10, 2007, 08:24:57 AM

Here you go - Leni's collection  http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/thumbnails.php?album=72 (click the thumbnails to see larger pics.)

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: pamela on August 10, 2007, 06:41:19 PM

Hi Chris, I do like them too  :D
www.pressglas-pavillon.de - go to VASES - scroll down to mouthblown  :dance: they are a little like this feature at the left  ;D

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 10, 2007, 06:56:31 PM

Totally totally absurd!  :P

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: Anne on August 10, 2007, 08:37:09 PM

But it'd be so boring if we all liked the same style - not to mention that it would make buying things a bit of a hassle with us all bidding against each other.  8)

Title: Re: Glass vases with clear base and bulbous green streaked top
Post by: uglyvase on August 10, 2007, 08:39:03 PM

I've been having a great week for buying, sadly no glass, but I've got a ton of pottery on the way! Plus I'm so happy, a piece from America arrived today and the seller DOES know how to pack to get it here safely. It's  really....errrrr "special" piece! :-D