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Title: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: thibs23 on April 06, 2009, 05:35:11 PM

Hi, can anyone give me any pointers in trying to Identify this vase.  I really do not know much about it, except that Mary Gregory is not the correct term for it.  I was hoping you guys may be able to guide me in this. Also heard the term Stourbridge??

(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/thibs23/IMG_0410.jpg)
(http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e16/thibs23/IMG_0409.jpg)

The blue iridescence is much stronger in person.

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: Lustrousstone on April 06, 2009, 06:17:57 PM

Is it actually cameo or is it enamelled? Cameo is where a layer of glass has been removed to reveal a different colour underneath. Stourbridge is a place in the UK where there were a lot of glassmakers, so its not really a very useful term

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: thibs23 on April 06, 2009, 06:22:27 PM

Hi, I believe it is Cameo glass.

Zach

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: Cathy B on April 07, 2009, 02:53:33 AM

It looks enamelled to me as well. Is there an iridescent effect to the blue glass? Maybe you could get better pictures, particularly showing the depth of the white layer?

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: scimiman on April 07, 2009, 08:29:30 AM

Any chance of getting some pics of the figures with some decent definition.  :huh:
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: Paul S. on April 07, 2009, 10:10:20 AM

Hello Zach

give us an educated guess  -  what wud you say is the height of the white image above the blue  -  less than half a mill., more than a mill.   Cameo, in its simplest
form, is an image in relief after cutting away surrounding glass - in this instance cutting away the blue to leave white.
Another line of thought might be - if the white had been cut to blue, wud iridescence remain on the blue (right up to the white).   Best of Luck with your search.   cheers   Paul S.

Title: Re: ??English Cameo Glass? Irridescent Vase, Can anyone help?
Post by: Glasshound on April 08, 2009, 04:30:04 AM

It's not Cameo glass...the image has been painted on...

I have a similar one for sale on my site.

http://www.glasshound.com/Bohemian_glass_vase_363.html (http://www.glasshound.com/Bohemian_glass_vase_363.html)

/Blair