Glass Message Board

Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: djkglass on June 22, 2009, 04:32:40 PM

Title: colourful vase id please
Post by: djkglass on June 22, 2009, 04:32:40 PM

Colourful outside with white coloured inside, polished pontil mark with wear around the base edges.

Thanks

Title: Re: colourful vase id please
Post by: TxSilver on June 22, 2009, 10:56:54 PM

No one else has written anything, so I thought I would say a little. I haven't seen your vase before, but it looks Italian, either Murano or Florence. Other countries make Italian-style vases. Yours looks well done, so I think there is a good chance it is Italian.

Title: Re: colourful vase id please
Post by: Ivo on June 23, 2009, 07:19:19 AM

I'd place it in France. I've seen this vase quite often on markets there, but mostly with a cut and polished rim, not a scallop edge. No idea if it was made there, or imported. Dealers seem to think it is Clichy - but they are prone to exaggeration.

Title: Re: colourful vase id please
Post by: malwodyn on June 23, 2009, 01:30:48 PM

Could even be Stourbridge;  or Bohemian....  Does the white interior fluoresce unde UV?

Title: Re: colourful vase id please
Post by: TxSilver on June 24, 2009, 07:09:09 PM

The pleats on the bottom do look very Stourbridge, don't they? The rim looks Italian, but then a lot of Stourbridge glass looks Italian.

Title: Re: colourful vase id please
Post by: Gary on June 24, 2009, 09:22:47 PM

Franko Toffolo is a possibility, I have three of his vases and all have the same white interior.
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/nn218/gazzacan/  link to forementioned F Toffolo vases.
Gary