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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: yesvil on August 25, 2010, 01:43:15 PM

Title: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: yesvil on August 25, 2010, 01:43:15 PM

Can anyone help me with this one please.

It stands 125 mm tall and is quite weighted at the base. The underneath is ground flat and shows quite significant wear. At The Very bottom of the vase - but not obvious in the pic - is the word VITA

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skillkraft/4926478568/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skillkraft/4926479752/in/photostream/

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: Anne on August 25, 2010, 05:29:30 PM

Vita means vine in Romanian so that may be a pointer as to which area to search. (It also means life in Italian which might be the alternative place to look!)

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: Mosquito on August 25, 2010, 07:12:27 PM

I have one of these too, I think it's a tumbler/ drinking glass rather than a vase, I did see a set of 6 of these a while back. No mark on mine but it's definitely old, plenty of wear and a nicely ground and polished foot. I've not found anything more about it, but I'd guess it's 1920s-30s-ish in date. Mould quality is very good.

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: yesvil on August 26, 2010, 08:09:15 AM

Thanks Anne/Mosquito. I did wonder if it was a drinking glass - Romanian wine glass maybe? 

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: Ivo on August 26, 2010, 08:24:57 AM

Looks a bit modern - it could also be a water glass goblet part of a promotion from Vita Craft Corp., or a whisky tumbler marketed by Vita glass of China. Keep the options open....

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: Mosquito on August 26, 2010, 08:51:28 AM

Probably not Chinese and nothing to do with Vita of Guangdong province. On my example the metal is very grey - it looks much darker than the pic, wear is very heavy and this combined with the ground foot tend to suggest an earlier date. Of course it would be wrong to rule out other possibilities, some rather nice pressed glass in quite traditional styles was being made in China around the early 1980s, but I've never come across this pattern and the metal looks wrong for China; having said that, I'm not familiar with older, pre-communist production, though this would seem far less likely than a European origin.

It's a little frustrating as mine is back up north while I'm down here in Soton, what I can say is that it's a nice mould with the seams hidden in the vertical ribs, I can't remember offhand if it's a three or 4 part mould. It's pressed rather than mould-blown and is heavy for its size.

Title: Re: Clear vase with grape design
Post by: yesvil on August 26, 2010, 09:33:43 AM

Although my experience is limited I would say I agree with Mosquito that this has the feel of a 1930s piece.

A couple of extra pics:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skillkraft/4928459051/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skillkraft/4928460251/in/photostream/