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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: oldschool on November 09, 2011, 04:11:54 PM

Title: Female Torso Vase maker?
Post by: oldschool on November 09, 2011, 04:11:54 PM

Does anyone know who might have made this young lady?  :-[
My searches indicate Italy, but I am not convinced.
She stands 10 inches tall, and weighs almost 4 lbs.
Is there a name for the stringy style?

 

Title: Re: Female Torso Vase maker?
Post by: glassobsessed on November 09, 2011, 06:51:26 PM

The stringy stuff is usually called 'trailed' or trailed glass/trailed decoration, it is formed with a thin thread of molten glass draped over the surface. Can also be called random strapping.

I suspect the vase is contemporary and made somewhere that currently mass produces glass, possibly China. I am fairly sure I have seen these for sale locally in TK Maxx.

John

Title: Re: Female Torso Vase maker?
Post by: oldschool on November 11, 2011, 08:01:17 PM

Thanks for the info John!