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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Anik R on April 06, 2010, 10:44:11 AM
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Hello again…
Can anyone help me identify this vase?
It’s 29cm tall and very heavy. The glass seems to be layered – the inside is white, covered with a layer of red and orange. Then there is a clear layer with some parts which are colored (oranges, greens and browns). The very bottom of the vase is clear.
Air bubbles cover the vase – larger bubbles at the base moving up to many smaller bubbles at the top. Aha, I can feel the air bubbles when I put my hand inside the vase.
The base has been ground but is unpolished.
Forgive my lack of professional language in describing the vase... I’m still just beginning :)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you!!!
Anik
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Anik,
a very attractive vase, hand made, probably from a factory or studio, somewhere
in the Poland area of Europe, and i would think fairly recent.
Maybe someone will recognise the style to a particular maker.
Cheers
Andy
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Thank you, Andy :)
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Hi,
no idea really, but the colours remind me of vases from former Yugoslavia. Can´t
recall a glassworks´ name though... :huh:
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Thank you, Dirk :)
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Hi there
ive seen very similar work from mtarfa and phoenicain but the base's on those are normally well polished
michelle
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hello Anik - lovely piece, but like the others regret I don't know the source. However, can say that the colour/patterning is what, in geology, wud be called 'banded agate' - occurs naturally in some of the quartz material from a variety of places around the globe. No real help I know, but very attractive, and possibly made deliberately to copy the agates.
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Thank you Michelle and Paul! I think it's wonderful that people take the time to pass on their knowledge. I greatly appreciate it...
All the best!
P.S. As a side note, I could just kick myself in the pants for my 'former' ignorance... I have quite a few pieces of glass which I bought/collected over the years just because I thought they were pretty and would look lovely on my shelves. Some of them had labels which I REMOVED because I thought they ruined the 'look' of the glass. Oh stupid, stupid, stupid me... Now I know better. By the way, the vase pictured above was bought on an on-line auction about 4 years ago -- it was described as 'old, original made of colored glass'. There was no label on it :)
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I know I've seen one like this somewhere but can't find it! It looks very like Gozo Glass, another Maltese glassworks, but can't find exactly the same shape or colourway. The base is right for Gozo too, they are often signed but not always. I know this just adds to the confusion, sorry!
Suzy x
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Suzy, not 'confusion' but INTRIGUED ;D
Thank you!
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I wondered about Gozo too, aren't their bases usually polished though? The colours seem a bit primary for Gozo as well, these are just vague musings on my part!
John
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Gozo - I've seen a couple that have rough ground bases and seem to have escaped the polishing stage, so weren't signed. As for the colourways check out this link to their 2002 catalogue.
http://www.gozoglass.com/Gozo%20Glass%20Catalouge.pdf
And this is a UK retailer
http://www.jgdistributors.co.uk/pages/gozoindex.html
Suzy x
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Mmm, think I should keep my musings to myself. ;D
John
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You teach me Scandi I teach you Gozo :P
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I do see some similarities with Gozo glass although I really haven't found anything with the same colors. But maybe... :)
Aha, my vase has got a 'fault' which may account for its unpolished/unfinished base -- At the very top of the vase, there is a 1,5cm spot which is not covered with red -- it's just white covered with clear. So maybe the vase is a 'reject'.
But even rejects can be lovely ;)
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I've seen very similar things with identical bottom finish earlier this week at LaFiore, Mallorca. Not saying that it is, mind you, just observing that all bottom finishes at LaFiore are of this type.
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That kind of thing is often acceptable in studio glass, especially one of such complexity. It's a lovely piece
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I think I've found a clue... I'm a hero ;D
http://cgi.ebay.pl/Dekorative-Vase-Murano-Kunst-aus-Glas-UNIKAT_W0QQitemZ150435773117QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGlas_Kristall?hash=item2306abbabd
and another by the same seller:
http://cgi.ebay.pl/Dekorative-Vase-Murano-Kunst-aus-Glas-UNIKAT_W0QQitemZ150434759925QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGlas_Kristall?hash=item23069c44f5
Now if only I understood the description :pb:
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Be thankful you don´t! ;D
Mostly rubbish, honestly... If you insist though?
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Oh dear... that bad?
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I've looked up 'Fazzoletto'... but I have no idea what the vase has to do with a handkerchief... or with glass "fazzoletto" vases :huh:
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Well, it´s just the usual blabla of using terms like great, dreamlike, massive, several layer
technique, high quality, mouth blown, hand formed, ground out pontil mark, collectable,
eye-catcher, one of a kind: ´Each art glass has her own design, shape and colour.´
The term fazzoletto or handkerchief-vase being completly inaccurate of course. :spls:
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Thank you Dirk :) ... and here I was in my super-hero cape, thinking I had found an exact answer :24:
Hee hee.
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One day you´ll get an answer - fingers crossed. :fwr:
BTW - just noticed, that every description of this seller is exactly the same - including
measurements. He / she simply changes the picture, when making a new offer. :24:
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BTW - just noticed, that every description of this seller is exactly the same - including
measurements. He / she simply changes the picture, when making a new offer. :24:
Oh, that, I'm sure, is just 'coincidence' ;D
Thank you :kissy:
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Looking at the seller's items, they all appear to be new, which makes me wonder if they are being produced somewhere not too far from Poland and Austria: Bulgaria perhaps, Romania? Not Murano though, as some of them claim to be. The agatey ones are rather nice
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Although it would be nice to find the vase's origin, I have a feeling it's department store glass from the 90s. When I bought the vase, it wasn't in pristine condition -- it was dirty and looked like it had been used for a few years before falling into my hands... But then again, even if it is department store glass, I still think it's a lovely example, especially when sunlight falls upon it. In other words, I think I've got a piece of fabulous 'nothing' -- but that's OK!
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Most of the glass we discuss on here started off as department store glass...sold and bought to be enjoyed and/or used, not to collect. The exceptions are really the one-off studio pieces and the limited editions. It's just that some of it has come to have more value than others. Some of it has collecting value but little financial worth, some of is just interesting and some of it has few merits beyond its original purpose. The pieces we tend to sneer at are often poorly made and designed or derivative but with few of the merits of the original.
Your vase is lovely and original; someone, somewhere is putting thought into it and similar vases. The problem is we don't know who, although I suspect from the vases of that ebay seller that range is still in production. It reminds me a little of the glass made in Azerbaijan http://www.reyesfinearts.com/documents/artglass/baijan/index.htm#126 (That thought has only just filtered out of the grey matter)
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Most of the glass we discuss on here started off as department store glass...sold and bought to be enjoyed and/or used, not to collect.
Oh that I know and understand :) The general population, past and present, had to get their glass from somewhere... What I meant to say by 'department store' glass was that a version of this vase can still, in all probability, be found in a department store somewhere ;D