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Title: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: ipdglasspolishing on March 25, 2010, 07:32:36 PM

Hi does anyone recognise the mark to the base of this nice 15cm vase?  :huh:

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on March 25, 2010, 07:43:20 PM

That is the kind of mark left when the vase was snapped off the pontil rod, which is used by the glassmaker to hold the piece while it is being worked. Sometimes they can be quite rough to the touch, sometimes they are a bit smoothed by reheating. Known as a snapped off pontil mark.

If you see a concave polished recess in the same position then the mark has been ground and polished away (called polished pontil mark).

John

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: ipdglasspolishing on March 25, 2010, 07:53:07 PM

Sorry John this mark has been specifically placed. It forms a moulded semi circular dish with flames? or possibly triangular tree? formed from bubbles, I favour flames. definitely not a pontil mark. :thup:

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 25, 2010, 08:03:19 PM

Uredale perhaps http://www.uredale.co.uk/

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on March 25, 2010, 08:06:35 PM

Woops, all I can see is a blur.  ;D

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: ipdglasspolishing on March 25, 2010, 08:46:23 PM

Never mind John, tomorrow i will rub some rouge into the mark and take another photo. :thup:

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: ipdglasspolishing on March 26, 2010, 10:14:00 AM

more photos  :thup:

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on March 26, 2010, 10:26:14 AM

Still looks like a random mark to me.

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: Max on March 26, 2010, 10:41:35 AM

Has someone tried to remove a sharp piece of snapped of pontil glass with a Dremel?   :huh:

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on March 26, 2010, 10:47:22 AM

Uredale do use a pink swirling colourway like that, you could email them and ask if it is one of theirs.

John

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: ipdglasspolishing on March 26, 2010, 11:22:10 AM

Obviously I can see something that the photos do not show. 2 semi circles of glass have been applied to the base, one semi circle of bubbled glass has had a tool pulled through it to drag it out to a triangle. :thup:.

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: paulbowen on March 26, 2010, 02:21:16 PM

This doesn't look like a mark to me.  Pontil marks often involve wierd patterns that are randon.  This vase looks like Gray-Stan to me.

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: Anne on March 26, 2010, 06:35:12 PM

Not Uredale's mark methinks, see here for more on it: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,31685.0.html

Title: Re: Mark to Base of Vase
Post by: Andy on March 27, 2010, 02:53:47 PM

I can see a mark, i believe you  ;) I dont think its random.
Andy

(Its not Jesus  ! Is it ??  :24: )