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Title: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: CultureVulture on June 12, 2011, 11:24:38 AM

Any help in identifying this would be appreciated.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Ivo on June 12, 2011, 11:54:12 AM

Are you having us on or is the glass maker? Stem and vase do not match in style, it maybe glued together.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: obscurities on June 12, 2011, 06:49:36 PM

I agree... certainly a marriage of some sort...... and a bad one at that......

I do not want to believe that anyone that could produce glass would have such bad taste.....

Sorry,
Craig

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: CultureVulture on June 12, 2011, 08:01:56 PM

No its definately all original no joins. It may look ugly in the photo but its quite stuuning to look at in sunlight.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: obscurities on June 12, 2011, 08:15:22 PM

Sorry, but it definitely has to be joined somehow... the glass is two different colors and styles....... The top piece is a mold blown piece of glass with the surface pattern and would have had to be joined to the bottom piece at some point...... The lower portion of the green piece was obviously designed to sit flat on a surface, and not sit on a stem........

I still think a marriage for sure.....

Craig

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 12, 2011, 09:23:55 PM

Can we see the point where the two colours of glass meet from the side.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: KevinH on June 13, 2011, 01:19:04 AM

The "stem" seems to be a 20th century (I think) drinking glass with airtwist decoration - probably with most of the bowl broken at the top and then ground down before being fitted, in whatever way, to the green vase.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: CultureVulture on June 13, 2011, 03:06:16 PM

hi pics as requested

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Lustrousstone on June 13, 2011, 03:08:42 PM

Looks glued on to me.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Cathy B on June 14, 2011, 10:36:48 AM

Ground down and glued on, and the only question that remains is why in God's name... :) No offence, but my goodness....

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: chopin-liszt on June 14, 2011, 11:23:30 AM

Now it would have been a real offence if it had been a real air-twist stem - thankfully, it's not - just another look-alike-from-a-distance moulded thing.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Cathy B on June 16, 2011, 11:52:00 PM

My objection is purely aesthetic...  ;)

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Frank on June 17, 2011, 01:04:52 AM

I guess that could be called a marriage of the old and the new! It is incredibly hideous but I have such bizarre taste and can quite see why you like it. Hideous can be pleasing at times. Now if some could ID the top part....

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: suzzi on June 17, 2011, 02:21:31 AM

I have seen very similar pieces with "Made in Italy" stickers

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: CultureVulture on June 20, 2011, 09:08:36 PM

Hey hold on i never said i liked it, i dont just wondered what on earth it was Thankyou everyone whose looked anyway

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Ivo on June 20, 2011, 09:28:30 PM

sorry that your piece meets with such unanimous disapproval - it cannot be easy reading. Hope your next ID makes everyone  :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp: :hiclp:

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Frank on June 20, 2011, 10:08:42 PM

Quote from: Ivo on June 20, 2011, 09:28:30 PM

... unanimous disapproval ...

Not quite I dissented  :srn: I find it fun. Next I want to see a fake w/f brick vase mounted onto a pair fake Irish 18th C Air twists.  :ooh:

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: obscurities on June 21, 2011, 12:54:59 AM

Quote from: CultureVulture on June 20, 2011, 09:08:36 PM

Hey hold on i never said i liked it, i dont just wondered what on earth it was Thankyou everyone whose looked anyway

I took the statement....

Quote from: CultureVulture on June 12, 2011, 08:01:56 PM

It may look ugly in the photo but its quite stuuning to look at in sunlight.

as an indication of approval....... 
Maybe I misread it.....   :kissy:

Craig

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: CultureVulture on June 21, 2011, 02:22:04 PM

Great im glad this has been fun ok so thats a binner, ill get another ugly piece up another day. Now ill post something else for the time being.

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: rosieposie on June 24, 2011, 09:35:36 PM

Could this one be a cousin perhaps??

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MURANO-AMBER-SPIRAL-VASE-10-25-CM-/160609492764

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: KevinH on June 24, 2011, 11:08:39 PM

 :o Somebody, somewhere, is actually putting these things together!

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: Cathy B on June 27, 2011, 07:27:17 AM

I would have thought the one in the link was from Empoli - and it looks at least mould-blown?

Title: Re: any ideas who? where? what?
Post by: antiquerose123 on June 27, 2011, 07:31:54 AM

Quote from: Cathy B on June 27, 2011, 07:27:17 AM

I would have thought the one in the link was from Empoli - and it looks at least mould-blown?

Me too -- as I think I have see pieces like this, IMHO  :usd: