Glass Message Board

Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: ckscot on July 19, 2008, 03:49:53 PM

Title: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: ckscot on July 19, 2008, 03:49:53 PM

Another one from my latest auction haul (a box of little oddities that I couldn't resist).  Can't think how best to describe it.......has faded mottled pink, purple and orange colours with greenish grey lines and dots... matt finish all over... flat base.  Looks like a little hyacinth vase.  It's 4"high and 4" at its widest.
Anyone any idea of where or when it might have been made?

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: Ivo on July 19, 2008, 04:21:16 PM

Yes certainly. It was decorated (acid stained) some time in the past 20 years by Ilanit glass of Israel, but the blank was imported factory glass from France or Italy.

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: ckscot on July 19, 2008, 05:42:51 PM

Wow, that was quick and precise.  I couldn't have told if it was 20 or 100 years old.  Many thanks, Iain

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: Cathy B on July 20, 2008, 01:30:32 AM

Would Ilanit export under the label Simron (http://cgi.ebay.com/SIMRON-Set-of-2-Small-Glass-Mugs-Hand-Painted-in-Israel_W0QQitemZ380040972289QQihZ025QQcategoryZ1449QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262), or are they different operations?

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: Ivo on July 20, 2008, 05:39:23 AM

There are actually three Israeli companies that use this process; Ilanit, Nahariya and one that escapes me right now. Of these, Ilanit is by far the largest. The products are indistinguishable, as they all use the same Bormioli or Arques blanks. Quite possible that they use a Simron label - or it may be another one. The technical outlay for acid staining is minimal. Everyone can do it in his garage. Similar stuff is made in Romania, but of a slightly more elegant nature. Not.

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: Cathy B on July 20, 2008, 03:12:43 PM

Thanks Ivo! Good to know this stuff.

Title: Re: ID help on grey, mottled vase
Post by: krsilber on July 20, 2008, 11:44:00 PM

Quote

There are actually three Israeli companies that use this process; Ilanit, Nahariya and one that escapes me right now.

Reuven, perhaps?