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Title: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: Martyn K on April 30, 2010, 03:27:16 PM
Opinions sought...

Clear glass 18.5cm (7 1/4") high, applied ruffled collar and tooled strap to one side. Nice flat polished base with clean circular polished pontil mark in the middle, no makers marks.

I'm sure it has some age and quality that might no be apparent in the photos...any ideas who made it much appreciated.

Martyn.
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: chriscooper on April 30, 2010, 05:39:17 PM
Powell definitely did a similar leather bottle


http://tinyurl.com/2u3nf9e
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: johnphilip on April 30, 2010, 05:43:14 PM
Chris is right but so did many others Stuart for one , i believe Nigel has done some study of these , there are also Skandi ones . jp
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: nigel benson on April 30, 2010, 06:30:01 PM
Yep, John is quite right. For instance, certainly Strombergshyttan also made 'leather bottle' carafes. The difficulty in photos is that there is no sense of weight for the given item; in my experience this is significant in diagnosing these carafes. Additionally, and interlinked, is the thickness of the glass. Then comes the rest of the diagnosis, including, the general shape, the footprint/plan of the piece, the way the 'rat-tail' (lace) is formed,..........well, you get the picture (or maybe you don't) :o ;) :o

Nigel
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: Martyn K on April 30, 2010, 07:11:47 PM
So Nigel, who made this one and when...I'll let you have three additional questions and two guesses.
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: Martyn K on May 01, 2010, 11:33:37 AM
Thanks to Chris and JP BTW.

A couple more clues and a base shot just in case it helps.

The footprint is circular, slightly kicked base to the middle inside, glass is fairly clear with a slightly lead grey tone. Thicker at base and rim otherwise fairly finely blown, weighs 400g so not too heavy.
Title: Re: Roman style vase...venitian?...Powell?...?
Post by: johnphilip on May 01, 2010, 05:33:00 PM
Reijmyre also made some  they have a small pontil about 3.5 cms and polished very much like W/Fs. jp :-\