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Title: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: Andy on June 02, 2009, 11:16:39 AM

Just arrived in the post, its a nice quality thing, pleased with purchase, (sold as Murano)
5 inches tall, 4 inches wide, thick glass , 1.3kg Polished pontil.
top half, orangey red mottled splashes, bottom half silver and black bubbly effect
Heavily cased in clear glass.

A nice vase, any suggestions to origin/maker ??
Cheers
Andy
ps not much sign of age wear to base.

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: Andy on June 06, 2009, 04:35:50 PM

Scandinavian? maybe German, Zweisel, WMF??

anything?
 ;D

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: Andy on November 01, 2009, 03:04:52 PM

'Bump'

Super quality,
Anything at all??  :'(

Andy

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: keith on November 01, 2009, 03:09:18 PM

Has a Scottish look to me????don't ask why,Keith.

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: Greg. on November 01, 2009, 03:36:54 PM

Hi Andy,
Not sure could be similar to some ‘Cellophane’ glass' i recently purchased. Nothing exactly the same, although interesting link below:-

http://www.ysartglass.com/Ysart/NotYsart.htm

hope you manage to identify - regards, Greg

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: dirk. on November 01, 2009, 04:11:07 PM

I´m wondering if it might be a Gralglas piece. Like Zwiesel they often
used bubble decoration produced by metall oxide inclusions. This
auction house has pictures (pity they are only thumbnail size) of
pieces in a similar colourway.
http://www.von-zezschwitz.de/recherche.php?navid=9&navsubid=10&id=V2llZG1hbm4sIEthcmw=&PHPSESSID=f2271b
Unfortunately there doesn´t seem to be a book on this fabulous
glassworks yet. Information can only be gained from publications
about their designers such as Karl Wiedmann or Konrad Habermeier.

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: Andy on November 01, 2009, 04:49:35 PM

Thanks all,
Greg, i know its not 'cellophane' glass, i have a few, nice stuff, and have had a few conversations
on here. (search for cellophane)
Dirk, The Gralglas is interesting, the examples do look very very similar, shame cant get a bigger photo,  
and i was leaning towards Zweisel/WMF ,
Keith, possible it may be British/studio , so i will do a bit more searching
Cheers
Andy
 :D

Title: Re: Vase Orange splash ,silver, bubbes polished pontil
Post by: langhaugh on November 01, 2009, 07:54:25 PM

It's a lovely piece. I've got a few pieces from the 50's to 80's with inclusions like that so I like the technique. I think of Benny Motzfeltd, Bengt Orup and Leerdam, but none have this colour.

I think Dirk is on the right track, judging by the little pictures of of Lot 341 in his link. The date would be right for the style, too.

David