(http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/normal_DSCF0780.jpg) (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10318/DSCF0780.jpg) Click any image to enlarge. Click here (http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-12588) for gallery with further images. | Details: For a variety of reasons I am sure this vase is John Walsh Walsh, and again I am sure that it was made by the same master glassmaker that made Walsh mother of pearl (see here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,32042.0.html) for an example.) The vase was made in crystal cased canary (uranium yellow or "vaseline") glass with powdered white enamel and what I believe is traditional copper aventurine marvered in before the final crystal casing. Ivo Haanstra, Miller's, 2001 describes aventurine as a 15th Century Venetian development, made with copper shavings, which is what seems to apply here. It looks as if it was made using a diminutive cheese grater, perhaps the size of a nutmeg grater. Note the tiny bubbles scattered around the surface of the aventurine. See the four close-up images below, each clickable to enlarge. I have no experience of aventurine, so would welcome authoritative opinion. Thanks for your interest. Bernard C. 8) |
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