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Title: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 21, 2010, 09:32:21 AM

Hi, does this ring any bells????? i love it— but have no idea from where it hails...... It is 19cm's tall x 15 at the widest. Help please :tsk:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 21, 2010, 10:44:21 AM

Your pictures are way too small. Here is some help on posting pictures and resizing. I suggest you resize (by compressing not cropping) a high resolution picture so that the longest dimension is about 700 pixels.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6522.0.html

We also need a base shot please

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: TxSilver on July 21, 2010, 06:28:43 PM

We need larger pictures to check the finish and a move to the Murano Glass Society. Love those handles. It looks like a scavo finish, but I'm hoping not.

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 21, 2010, 10:10:15 PM

Thanks Anita, I haven't heard of Scarvo at all so am unsure what that is...... will have to look it up. Is it a bad thing? these should be beta resolution. Thanks! amanda :hiclp:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: kane_u_pain on July 22, 2010, 02:28:03 AM

Could you do a base shot and a close up of the hande(s)?

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: TxSilver on July 22, 2010, 03:01:30 AM

The vase appears to have a scavo or scavo-like finish. Often pieces with this type finish are made for the Venetian tourist trade and are hard to attribute. The handles are nicely done -- a nice display piece. I hope someone can identify it more definitely than I can. (I was hoping to see a bubbly finish)

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 22, 2010, 03:29:57 AM

thanks anita, i will post some more pics of the base when i can (haven't received the vase yet as I just bought it). thanks for your help! amanda

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Ivo on July 22, 2010, 05:50:52 AM

I have a large vase with the same finish in green - and with a V. Nason sticker. No handles, though....

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 22, 2010, 10:21:11 AM

Hi Ivo, that's interesting! could you possibly post a pic of it so I can see. I have done a search under that maker and can't find anything similar. Cheers, amanda :sun:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 22, 2010, 10:59:10 AM

If they are not your pictures, do you have permission to use them? Otherwise you are breaching the owner's copyright.

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: PAUL H on July 22, 2010, 05:50:59 PM

Is this Murano?? Glass makers on the Spanish island of Majorca do similar vases to this particularly Lafiore Glass.

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 22, 2010, 09:36:02 PM

FYI-- I have permission to post pics of my vase, Thanks for checking!

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Anne on July 22, 2010, 09:43:05 PM

Thanks for confirming it. :)

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 28, 2010, 12:22:54 AM

YAY here are some pics I just took. The vase is 1.5 kgs, cased it seems, tiny red foamy bubbles esp around rim area and also a smooth but rough outer....... HELP!! Has bigger bits of i guess glass and irrreuglar sized bubble through out. HELP would be so great as it is driving me mad. amanda :tsk:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 28, 2010, 12:27:28 AM

just one more pic!

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: johnphilip on July 28, 2010, 07:17:02 AM

I hate to say this but i have seen similar in one of the big department stores in UK with barcode on base
 i hope i am wrong my heart dropped when i saw it . Does yours have any wear round the base as its heavy ? :X:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Wayne on July 28, 2010, 07:48:48 AM

I don't remember where, but I too saw a lot of vases just like this in a shop a few years ago, they came in a variety of colours and had a very rough feel to the outside, like sandpaper.  :spls:

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: SPACEY on July 28, 2010, 10:42:29 AM

i love it whatever, it seems pretty well made and the light looks gr8 through it!......... there is hope for maybe finding a few more to buy in different colours! If you remember where you saw them let me know and thanks!.  :sun: amanda

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: Wayne on July 28, 2010, 11:15:14 AM

Good for you Amanda, that's all that matters.  :)

All I can remember about the place I saw them in, is that it was a pokey little shop, that mainly sold lamps and lighting fixtures, but it had these vases dotted about too.  I think it was somewhere in Manchester.  Sorry, I know that isn't much help!

Title: Re: stunning red heavy vase
Post by: johnphilip on July 29, 2010, 06:20:06 AM

Hi Amanda i wasnt saying yor vase is a dodgy one just pointing out their are some out there . lol jp