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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Margi on October 14, 2009, 06:07:55 PM
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Could someone please put me out of my misery. Here is my cylindrical bud vase of which I have found very similar ones whilst researching but the trapped air bubble (pictured) looks larger than mine. There is only one air bubble. It stands 22cm tall and is 4.5cm diameter. Who is it please or is it imitating the Swedish glassworks.
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Margi:
I'd have difficulty believing that the bubble was put there intentionally. It looks so lonely and insignificant. Is it a cased charcoal piece? How is the rim finished? And what's the base like? In other words, I don't recognize it. But I can't see it very clearly, either. Perhaps taking a picture against a white background would help. Meanwhile, how do we get help to that bubble?
David
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Hello David thanks for replying. I have my suspicion that it is trying to imitate Kosta Boda with the single trapped air bubble (I think that is who the glassworks were on the ones I have seen) but also if I remember correctly that it also was not arched but flat where the bud actually goes? It definately is Not a piece of charcoal but a defined bubble. The rim is ground and highly polished. The base has a slight concave and again is hhighly polished with a small circle rright in the centre. The glass is approx 2-3mm thick. The bottom of my vase looks like it has another level on the photo but it doesn't it is purely camera trickery.
I will try to get better photos later today.
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Margi:
Most Scandinavian companies did a version of the bubble vase. Kosta might have been the first with Pippi, that's off the top of my hedr, but iitala, Aseda, and a quite a few others, including some recent non Scandinavian companies, also had versions.
I know it's a bubble, not charcoal. Sorry, I didn't explain myself very clearly. I mean the interior of the vase was coloured charcoal.
Come to think of, that's not a bad idea, putting charcoal in.
David
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Better pictures I hope :)
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David, you can add Krosno of Poland as another company with a similar pattern...
Margi, that's an accidental bubble. They happen all the time.
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I see a lot of these around new in interior shops - M & S, Habitat, BHS, TKMax and others. Usually with a Foreign label on and quite often LSA which I understand is a Polish glass outfit.Quite an eye opener to browse around these shops sometimes. Difficult to tell them from any original Scandinavian vase at times
Emmi
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I see a lot of these around new in interior shops - M & S, Habitat, BHS, TKMax and others. Usually with a Foreign label on and quite often LSA which I understand is a Polish glass outfit.Quite an eye opener to browse around these shops sometimes. Difficult to tell them from any original Scandinavian vase at times
Emmi
LSA are from Sunbury-on-Thames but their products are made by Krosno - as is this one.
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Thanks all, although it is polish and recent I happen to really like it and it will be going in my bathroom it matches the decor beautifully :)
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Margi:
No need to apologize. Polish and modern aren't synonyms for bad. And anyhow I'm sure we all have a few guilty pleasures adorning some room of our houses. Sorry about being a bit too circumspect about the bubble. I should have just flat out told you that it was unintended bubble.
David
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It's a shame that we know so little about Krosno stuff. The quality is excellent.
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They do have a website though: http://www.krosno.com.pl/en/about_us/about_the_company/ :)