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Title: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: Flypogger on September 24, 2010, 01:52:11 AM
From the mystery shelf - what is it? I have no idea, my wife hates it (so I like it more), and no jokes about what anatomical part it may resemble. Thoughts? It's about 14.5 inches tall and 9 inches wide at base...

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_8_6405_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_8_6405_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_7_6404_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_7_6404_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_6_6403_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_6_6403_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_5_6402_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_5_6402_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_4_6401_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_4_6401_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_3_6400_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_3_6400_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_2_6399_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_2_6399_1/web.jpg)

(http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_1_6398_1/web.jpg) (http://gallery.me.com/surfink69/100094/WEIRD_VASE_1_6398_1/web.jpg)
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: jinxi on September 24, 2010, 09:22:02 AM
I see a kneeling torso, without head, very interesting piece, I would think Murano, Italian but let the experts decide ............. in that case would also think of Bianconi ............... can also see where your wife's coming from!
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 24, 2010, 09:40:24 AM
I get the kneeling torso too - but it seems to be of somebody who had been grossly overweight and has dieted - it definitely needs a tummy tuck!
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: Anik R on September 24, 2010, 09:45:42 AM
And I see a woman's *&%#...

Think it's time for a little visit to the psychologist.  :pb:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: antiquerose123 on September 24, 2010, 10:08:50 AM
I see a piece of squashed glass.... :24: where is the woman kneeling.....I might see what Anik said....but to me it just looks like squashed glass.  I was never good with ART... :spls:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: dirk. on September 24, 2010, 10:30:47 AM
so it´s Rohrschach and Prozac
and everything is groovy
la la la la
la la la li...
(Nick Cave)
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: jinxi on September 24, 2010, 11:11:22 AM
Sorry Sue, don't agree on the tummy tuck needed - I think it appears almost trapped inside outer, like modernist interpretation of the Victorian glass dome idea!

Veronica
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: johnphilip on September 24, 2010, 05:42:25 PM
I would say your wife has it about right , sorry . :srn:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: jinxi on September 24, 2010, 10:11:18 PM
I loved reading everyone's responses on this, perhaps Flypogger you could give your wife a break and make it earn its keep by renting it out as ice breaker pre-dinner conversation piece? Fledgling business idea perhaps (and I have a couple of other things I could sell you that would also go down well as such)!

Veronica
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: dinklepip on September 25, 2010, 11:30:50 AM
oh dear was the maker drunk a the time of making this  :24: :24: :24: :24:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 25, 2010, 02:44:45 PM
Looks like it wouldn't break too many ice-cubes before it got broken itself.......
Glass doesn't make a good hammer, particularly not hollow glass.  :sm:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: colink on September 25, 2010, 04:03:51 PM
I like that :thup:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: jinxi on September 27, 2010, 12:09:32 PM
I don't know that you took my initial comment seriously but in the absence of anyone coming up with anything better, if I were you I would send the pics over to the Fulvio Bianconi family's website and ask them very nicely to take a look at them for you!

http://www.fulviobianconi.com/

Veronica
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 27, 2010, 04:18:28 PM
And, all joking about it apart, I've seen similar strange textures in incredibly expensive glass gallery shops and in textbooks - I can't think what they were, not really my taste, but I honestly DO think it's something rather good. :thup:
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: Margi on September 27, 2010, 05:19:08 PM
When I first saw this I envisaged a seal but I also see the kneeling torso
Title: Re: Help with weird art glass vase
Post by: Carolyn Preston on September 28, 2010, 02:04:41 AM
I think it's a cat whose head has been broken off  :ooh:

Carolyn