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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: misha on November 06, 2010, 08:40:01 AM

Title: Victorian vase
Post by: misha on November 06, 2010, 08:40:01 AM

Hmmmm ... perhaps a better title will come to me.

Any info on the possible maker of this piece will be greatly appreciated.

I picked this up 2years ago from an old lady selling coins and what she termed... the stuff her elders had accumulated over the years.
This one was owned by her grandmother apparently along with a fair bit of cranberry glass she liked and was holding onto.
I felt really guilty about the low cost.... postage in a highly specified method cost more than the item.
I ended up paying her again when it arrived here, of which she couldn't understand.

The flower decorations are glass, gold line work on it is just visible, polished off over the years I guess as it is soft.

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05333.jpg (http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05333.jpg)

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05334.jpg (http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05334.jpg)

http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05335.jpg (http://i756.photobucket.com/albums/xx203/reproducer/DSC05335.jpg)

170mm high x 140mm wide

Any general idea's on this one please? 
People with any knowledge of these items are very hard to find in my area, let alone Perth, so I haven't had the chance to understand more about it.
Is that gold line work restorable without firing?

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: keith on November 06, 2010, 12:22:58 PM

Think you might struggle with this one,I see lots of this type around,Victorian/Edwardian is probably all you can say,sorry can't help further maybe some one else knows more, ;D

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: Ivo on November 06, 2010, 01:15:30 PM

it is Bohemian, possibly from Harrach'sche. This dotted enamel decoration is found a lot, there must have been an enormous production. It looks like a tumble-up i.e. a water decanter with an upside down matching glass for the bedside. Unless the inside of the neck is prepared for a stopper.

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: misha on November 06, 2010, 01:29:26 PM

Oh cool... thats a lead on what it is.  I recall seeing small green glasses with a similar decoration like you suggest a few years ago in Sydney.
Hasn't been ground taper for a stopper.

I thought it was a vase!   LOL   

Pretty thing and very light weight. Pity about the rim chip but thats not going further so all good. I bought it because I liked it and never sold on anything in the past... no need or intent to do so.

Next 'unknown' here next:  An unmarked Red / Clear cameo glass dish with a triple coral pattern purchased from a seller in Belgium 4years ago.

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: claretjugcollector on November 06, 2010, 01:34:24 PM

would say bohemian as well ..

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: misha on November 06, 2010, 01:40:46 PM

Pardon my ignorance on this....   is the term 'Bohemian' kinda generic like 'Murano' ?   
So it could be descriptive of a region and a group of manufacturers in that region?

Title: Re: Victorian vase
Post by: claretjugcollector on November 06, 2010, 01:46:55 PM

yes ! correct ! :rah: