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Title: is this whitefriars??
Post by: stemidd on July 24, 2011, 09:29:41 AM

hi all,
i have a kingfisher blue tapering vase, 16.5 cm high with clear lobed base, can any of you experts out there confirm if this is a whitefriars piece please as it looks like it but im unsure

kind regards

from steve in leeds u.k

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 24, 2011, 05:54:38 PM

I the photo a front view or a side view?  This is how a Whitefriars one should look

(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/emmismith/9571Blueteardrop.jpg)

It is a flattened oval shape which from the side view would look rather thin.

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: stemidd on July 26, 2011, 06:14:27 PM

hi mine is just tapered all the way down with no change in shape like your picture

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 26, 2011, 07:02:57 PM

Then yours is likely to be by Caithness.

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: stemidd on July 26, 2011, 07:28:21 PM

i have since been given this info Whitefriars Kingfisher blue chimney vase # 9655

regards all
steve

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: stemidd on July 26, 2011, 07:29:19 PM

http://whitefriarsartglass4sale.blogspot.com/2010/08/kingfisher-blue-chimney-vase-large-size.html

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: Lustrousstone on July 26, 2011, 08:05:14 PM

That goes straight down to the bottom; yours curves in. Yours is Caithness

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 26, 2011, 08:14:07 PM

That's my blog stemidd, and the Chimney vase is a very different vase from yours, which as Christine agrees is Caithness.

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: chriscooper on July 26, 2011, 08:29:15 PM

Looks like a chimney vase and the photo has been overly 'cropped' ?
Or a teardrop from the side?
Chris

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 26, 2011, 08:40:15 PM

I thought it was a teardrop from the side, hence my first question.  The angle of the photo certainly does not help, the W/F Chimney vase tapers - or narrows to the top - the photo of the vase in question looks straight all the way down to me..

Whatever..............a better photo would clear it up!

However, if in real life it looks like the one on my blog, then it will be the smallest of the three sizes in which this pattern was made.

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: chriscooper on July 26, 2011, 08:58:59 PM

A similar effect here Emmi with a bit of dodgy cropping and resizing Lol

https://picasaweb.google.com/107067405711297858658/Stretched02?authkey=Gv1sRgCNDVyrW3zf7pxwE

Title: Re: is this whitefriars??
Post by: vidrioguapo on July 26, 2011, 09:18:21 PM

Stretched more like it.!!!!

I think there should be a competition..............who can make a known vase look like something entirely different with a bad photo!  LOL!  I've seen some on ebay before taken with some arty lighting and an odd angle, that make them look nothing like the real thing >:(