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Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Simone on March 08, 2006, 02:25:54 AM

I want to sell these on Ebay, but haven't any idea who made them:

Vase 1 (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/glassvase1.jpg)
Vase 1, detail (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/glassvase2.jpg)
Vase 2 (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/glassvase-1.jpg)
Vase 2, detail (http://www.graphix4you.com/paperweights/glassvase-2.jpg)

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: KevinH on March 08, 2006, 02:29:12 AM

Modern Chinese is most likely.

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 08, 2006, 09:11:13 AM

:D:D:D

Seconded!

I was "taken in" by exactly these pieces when I first got interested in glass, I'd read about "Graal", but never seen it. When I saw these in an antique shop, quite cheap, I reckoned it was worth getting them, just in case. Having found out what they were, I sold them in Oxfam for nearly what I paid. They're still decorative, I just don't like flowery stuff.

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Leni on March 08, 2006, 09:45:07 AM

I do like flowery stuff, as you know!  :lol:

I'd agree, modern Chinese.  I particularly like the second one!   Let me know when you're listing them, Simone    :wink:

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Anne on March 08, 2006, 05:32:18 PM

Simone, is the decoration on the surface of the glass or inside it, please?

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 08, 2006, 06:37:12 PM

:D:D:D

If it's like mine were, the decoration is inside the glass, which is why I thought it might be Graal.

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Simone on March 08, 2006, 10:57:24 PM

Quote from: "Anne"

Simone, is the decoration on the surface of the glass or inside it, please?

It's inside the glass, like lampworked paperweights and also like my Mayauel Ward. Does it make a difference?

Oh dear.... I had to show my ignorance, but what's Graal?  :oops:

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Frank on March 08, 2006, 11:05:15 PM

See here Simone http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,1025.0.html and for the BEST of SCOTTISH Graal http://www.ysartglass.com/Frank/LindeanMill.htm

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Anne on March 09, 2006, 03:14:09 AM

Quote from: "Simone"

It's inside the glass, like lampworked paperweights and also like my Mayauel Ward. Does it make a difference?

Thanks Simone, no difference, I was just curious to know how they are made, as I've not seen these before. :)

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: bubbles on March 25, 2006, 11:09:20 PM

Hi Simone,
I have just been looking through a file I had saved off the internet, whilst I was researching some of my bud vases.  I have just come across your two vases on those pages!  Made by the Zibo Zhaohai Light Industrial Products Ltd, in China.  Their website page doesn't show them currently, but there was also a yellow flower and a blue flower like your purple one.

I saw them on the internet August 2005, so that will hopefully date them for future reference.

http://www.zhaohaichina.com

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: bubbles on March 26, 2006, 10:09:41 AM

Well they may have been on there before that of course. :?  I found them still on the web page in August.   :)

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Leni on March 27, 2006, 08:07:11 AM

Quote from: "bubbles"

Made by the Zibo Zhaohai Light Industrial Products Ltd, in China.  

I contacted these people a while back in my researches on Chinese paperweights, to ask if there was any information available about who made their various glass items.  I got a standard reply (in fairly poor English - but hey, it was better than my Chinese, so who am I to comment?!  :oops: :roll: ) saying something like, "We make many wonderful glass, popular all over world, "  etc., etc., all telling me nothing  :?  :roll:  :(

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: Frank on March 27, 2006, 10:06:47 AM

Write to the embassy in London... cultural attache or press office. Ask them about glass training centres in China and write to them, you are more likely to get an english speaker that way. It would also be worthwhile to get a short note translated by your friendly local takeaway and send both languages.

Title: Unidentified vases, does anyone know the maker?
Post by: bubbles on March 27, 2006, 10:17:56 AM

Quote from: "Leni"

Quote from: "bubbles"

Made by the Zibo Zhaohai Light Industrial Products Ltd, in China.  

I contacted these people a while back in my researches on Chinese paperweights, to ask if there was any information available about who made their various glass items.  I got a standard reply (in fairly poor English - but hey, it was better than my Chinese, so who am I to comment?!  :oops: :roll: ) saying something like, "We make many wonderful glass, popular all over world, "  etc., etc., all telling me nothing  :?  :roll:  :(

Yes, I did the same.  I sent them a picture of the vases in question asking if they had made them. Their reply was; yes they could make them for me or to any other design I wanted!  They now send me regular emails with their latest products, so maybe it wasn't too much of a wasted effort. :?  :D