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Title: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: sammyvase on March 05, 2012, 06:16:25 PM

Hi there,

I bought this beautiful vase today, and was hoping to get some more info about its origin and value etc..

It looks 70's to me, maybe scandinavian??? To be honest i haven't got a clue, but really fell in love with it.

Its approx. 44cm high, by 15cm wide at its widest.  It is very heavy and solid glass, and has a clear acid etched signature/mark on the bottom, but i cannot decipher what it says!

Anyway help much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Sam

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: flying free on March 05, 2012, 11:52:23 PM

Hi Sam
Welcome to the board  :)
I can't help further with your vase, I just cannot make out the signature except does it begin with a V? perhaps.  However hopefully someone will be along soon who may have some good ideas to help.
m

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: KevinH on March 05, 2012, 11:52:56 PM

Welcome to the GMB, Sam.

I have changed the title of the thread to hopefully attract more attention.

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: sammyvase on March 06, 2012, 10:13:55 AM

Thank you both for your help...the signature to me appears to be V or perhaps an elaborate P....followed by an A??? I thought it was V A Hanky or something????

Hopefully someone out there will have some idea!

Thanks again, Sam

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: Tigerchips on March 06, 2012, 11:52:05 AM

It looks similar to the 'V' on a Ioan Tubi Vadan signature so wondering if it might be Romanian?

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 06, 2012, 12:19:02 PM

Something about it said "Lithuanian or Romanian" to me, (it's quite like some Lithuanian glass I bought from new a few years ago. I did put a thread here about them, but it was waaaa-y back in the days of tinypic.)

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: astrid on March 17, 2012, 10:32:39 AM

The style of the vase is certainly looking Polish or Roumanian to me.

Astrid

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: sammyvase on March 19, 2012, 07:33:27 PM

Thanks everyone for your help....but i'm still none the wiser!!! Any ideas about what period this dates from?

Thanks again, Sam

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: vidrioguapo on March 19, 2012, 07:48:23 PM

to me it looks rather like new production from Poland perhaps.  I have seen similar vases in "interior" shops.  But, I could be wrong of course. I like it, quite striking in size and decor.

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: sammyvase on March 19, 2012, 08:10:20 PM

I don't know much, but i'm sure its got some age to it...you can just tell! I can't believe how difficult it is to find some history to this piece, i've been searching all over the place!

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 20, 2012, 07:42:36 PM

 ??? What exactly do you mean by; "it has age, you can just tell"?
Has it got a great deal of age-related wear to the base?

I'm afraid it looks very, very new to me - I can "just tell"!

However, 5 years might be ages and ages to you, while I often think in evolutionary terms - so that a few thousand years isn't really very much at all!

No offence intended! ;D

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: sammyvase on March 20, 2012, 09:47:13 PM

Well...i will have to bow down to your intelligence. As i mentioned, i don't really know much, but i have to thank you for your constructive criticism, and enlightenment regarding global chronology!

Title: Re: ID help - tall, signed vase, opal with grey loops and red and green sections
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 21, 2012, 11:15:21 AM

 ;D
Sorry, that wasn't really very useful, was it?
Intelligence and common sense bear no relation to each other!
I should have concluded by saying I think this vase is of Eastern European manufacture, and was made some time within the last 10-15 years.

(I'm in my mid 50s. I can't get my head around the notion of something made in the '80s as having "age". I can just about cope with the '70s being a bit middle-aged.)

(please don't hit me with more big words!  ;) )