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Title: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: langhaugh on February 21, 2011, 02:31:47 AM

Picked this up today more because I don't have a clue what it is, and no books  I have show it. It's heavy, 1.9 kg, a shade under 9 1/2" tall, and has lots of wear on the base.

Any suggestion much appreciated. No possibility of offending me more than my wife already has on this one.

David

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on February 21, 2011, 07:29:30 AM

I could be wrong, but I would check out the Whitefriars catalogues http://www.whitefriars.com/catalogues/

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: johnphilip on February 21, 2011, 08:07:34 AM

Not W/Fs  :hi:

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: flying free on February 21, 2011, 09:44:39 AM

Sorry to hijack this thread slightly, but JP if you are online could you take a look at the bowl I've posted under British glass 'cloudy,bubbly..' heading please? I would really appreciate some help if you have time.  Many thanks. 
m

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: antiquerose123 on February 21, 2011, 05:09:21 PM

??????

Just wondering IF ???? it could be related to this Vase I have ??? since we both are in Canuck land.  Just throwing that out there as a possibly IF they might be related, but unknown...

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34764.0.html (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,34764.0.html)

 :wsh:

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: Carolyn Preston on February 21, 2011, 06:16:14 PM

It looks like a space ship. (Other things came to mind but I'm trying to be polite  :ooh: )

Carolyn

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: langhaugh on February 21, 2011, 06:43:58 PM

Thanks for the ideas. I checked the WF book and site and couldn't see this one, although I saw the general style. I'll take JP 's word that it's not WF.

I appreciate your attempt at being polite, Carolyn. Friends and family haven't even made the attempt.

Strangely enough, the seller I bought it from had mentioned that it's very rare to find WF in Vancouver, which surprised him, given the number of British emigrants here. It's probably more to do with what glass was imported to be sold in Canada. I bought it at a collectibles show where, between a friend and me, we bought WMF, Iittala, Leerdam, Holmegaard, Skrdlovice, Seguso, and one piece of Chalet.

Rose, I'm pretty sure that this is not Canadian, and while it's smoky and has a concave base, I don't see the two as being very similar.

I suspect that this is going to be an unusual one needing somebody like Ivo or Dirk, who have seen it in a little frequented store in the back streets of Buenos Aires or Hamburg.

David

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: dirk. on February 21, 2011, 07:10:26 PM

Sorry, David. I´m sure I´d recall it if I´d seen it.  ;D
Blind  :ru:

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: langhaugh on February 22, 2011, 01:22:12 AM

Dirk:  Thanks for replying. One of my thoughts was German and now I can move on from that.

David

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: dirk. on February 22, 2011, 04:49:18 AM

Not necessarily, David. The fact that I haven´t seen it so far, wouldn´t mean it can´t be german.  :)

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: astrid on February 22, 2011, 05:49:43 AM

My first intuition (for wathever it's worth) is Scandinavian, especially Finnish. I remember seeing some space agey designs (not quite similar but maybe related in style) from Riihimaen at some point.

Astrid

Title: Re: Big smokey (Dusk-like) vase
Post by: langhaugh on February 22, 2011, 06:38:29 AM

Thanks Dirk and I think you underestimate your infallibility.

Astrid:  I know what you mean about the similarities. However, I looked through Designlasin (the book) and Designlasi (the site) and didn't come up with anything that matched.

Is Leerdam a possibility?

David