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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: wolkenreb on June 08, 2011, 03:41:32 PM
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Last question, I promise, for a while at least.
I bought this vase from ebay. It was described as spatter glass, which isn't very obvious unless you hold it up to the light. It is almost 5 inches tall and has a dark blue base. The base is pretty flat and quite smooth.
Trash or Treasure? (This is my 3rd attempt at posting this so please forgive me if I've duplicated posts.)
Many thanks.
Nancy
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It's not what I'd describe as spatter - not even remotely!
If you do a search on ebay for "spatter glass", you'll find loads of multicoloured examples.
I quite like this one.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1930s-DECO-BOHEMIAN-SPATTER-GLASS-COVERED-BEEHIVE-JAR-/160597871898?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2564610d1a
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Boy, that's lovely! I want it!
But I see what you mean, obviously. So my vase isn't spatter glass. Oh well, never mind. How about speckle glass, does that work?
Anyhoo! Do you think it's trash or treasure?
(Got brilliant result from my ashtray question!!)
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I saw about your ashtray - nice one! :smg:
(I use whitefriars controlled bubble ashtrays - they do have a function.)
I think I know the sort of texture in the colour of your orange beast - I reckon I might describe it as mottled,
but there's a focus problem with your pics - sorry - not criticising - you should see the mess I get into with the camera. It's a fiesty and temperamental beast, thinks it knows what I want better than I do, you know the sort of thing. Currently it is refusing to go for counselling for our relationship problems. Not much a girl can do with something that hoity-toity!
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It's a resolution problem and a coloured background problem rather than a focus issue. You need to resize a high-resolution picture (i.e., change the image size) so that the longest dimension is about 700 pixels.
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My problem is that when I try to resize the image, I'm given a choice of inches, mm, or pixels per inch. 700 pixels per inch means the image is still too large, whereas 70 does diminish the clarity. Christine, do you know how many pixels per inch it should be.
In the meantime, I've done a close-up that might be slightly more informative regarding the mottling effect.
Here's a much better one.
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You're not physically resizing it, i.e., changing the dimensions, you're just changing the resolution, i.e, the pixels per inch. What programme are you using?
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I use my Lexmark Photo Editor (came with printer). The only other application I have that I could maybe use is PAINT. Would that work?
I have posted another picture which is a close-up.
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I have found a way that works for me but I am changing the size of the image.
I use the program that came with my printer too, it also allows me to choose between pixels, inches or centimeters. When you change the unit (pixels/inches etc) the number changes from say 13 inches to 2400 pixels. I make the longest side of my images around 600 pixels and that usually works.
John
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Tra-la! I've got it. Thanks John. After reading what you said I had another look at the programme I use and found that I had some pull down tab things that I hadn't noticed. This allows me to specify the number of pixels. RESULT!!
Christine -- thanks for your help. Hopefully future images will be much better quality.
Nancy
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I've seen an item on ebay which has a similar type of glass effect and it is described as 'fused'. Maybe that's the term I'm looking for.
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I don't think there is a term for your glass' finish. It's not fused, which is when pieces of glass are laid out in a pattern, possibly on top of a large piece of glass and then melted together.
The effect on your vase is created by rolling a hot blob of (often clear) glass in coloured glass powder sprinkled on a metal table. The vase is then blown to shape after reheating and the powder melts and spreads into blobs.
Spatter is created in the same way using several colours but the term derives from paint spatter (or something similar) and is probably a modern way of describing an old technique.
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Thanks for that explanation Christine. Perhaps I should just go with Sue's 'mottled'. Not that it matters really, I was just interested to see if anyone could tell anything about the vase itself.
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I think we need better pictures for that; we can really see what the base is like or how the blue is applied to the bottom.
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Here are some pics of the base. The last one is the base from the inside. Hope they're OK although even saving them at max 700 pixels they were too big to attach, so had to reduce them further.
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Just to get back to this vase. Having learned a tad more about glass in the past few weeks, I think I can say that this vase is made of cased glass, the outer layer being clear. It is at its thickest just before the vase joins the base. The base itself looks like a blob of blue glass has been flattened and then stuck on - is that a regular technique?
Does any of the above help with an ID?
Thanking you in advance . . . did I hear a grrrr!!?
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Yes that is one of the most widely used techniques usually referred to as powdered and clear cased.
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Thanks Ivo. I've been googling around trying to find out more about 'powdered' glass. In reference to this vase, does the 'powdered' refer to the darker flecks seen in the orange glass. Hope I don't seem to thick! Keen to learn though!