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Title: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2009, 06:13:42 PM

...or am i barking up the wrong vase?  ::)  ;D

It's a bit more green than what the photo shows...

I've shown a Mdina and a Lemington on either side just to give you the idea of what colour it is.

I think it's Kingfisher but thought i'd just check, the aqua bark vase is in FLC, am I right?

Cheers.

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11548
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11549

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: vidrioguapo on April 01, 2009, 07:27:27 PM

Assuming it is the one in the middle you are questioning, it is a Kingfisher bark vase (Whitefriars), clear cased so not FLC.  No Aqua vase is clear cased, always FLC.

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2009, 09:39:09 PM

Cheers, for some reason i thought the Kingfisher blue colour was just pure blue rather than a mix of the two colour's (blue and green). Silly me.  ;D

No Aqua vase is clear cased... Got it.  :thup:

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: vidrioguapo on April 01, 2009, 09:54:49 PM

Just to be clear no WHITEFRIARS FLC Aqua is cased............just a solid colour :)

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 01, 2009, 10:18:10 PM

There's another one called 'Aquamarine' which is cased with different colours, is it the exact same colour as Aqua FLC?

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: vidrioguapo on April 02, 2009, 08:14:42 AM

Aquamarine was a combination of blue and green and the vases made in this colourway were cased in clear and very pale and "watery"  in comparison to FLC Aqua.  I don't know if the same chemical formulae was used for the colour, but the general "tone" is very similar. I have not got a photo of a vase in Aquamarine ( very rare they are) but here are a couple in FLC Aqua -  as you can see the colour anyway appears deeper on one because of the thickness of the glass ( but I am sure you can see the difference between Kngfisher and Aqua now)

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/emmismith/9571Aqua.jpg)

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/emmismith/9842AquaFLCKnobbly7.jpg)

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 02, 2009, 10:13:38 AM

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11566

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as you can see the colour anyway appears deeper on one because of the thickness of the glass ( but I am sure you can see the difference between Kingfisher and Aqua now)

I do see the difference now, but if you compare mine with this kingfisher one....
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-16 

...my vase has more green in it, maybe it's just the light. :-\

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: vidrioguapo on April 02, 2009, 11:51:02 AM

Your photo link doesn't work for me!  But in any event these blues and greens Aqua's etc. are notoriously difficult to picture to get accurate colours.  I have one green vase, which always looks blue in a photo no matter what I do.

Title: Re: Kingfisher colour?
Post by: Tigerchips on April 02, 2009, 04:31:50 PM

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-1684
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-11566