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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Lustrousstone on December 08, 2013, 06:14:07 PM
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This has to be the winner for 2013. I just thought I'd share all 9.25 delightful :-X inches of it. The outer casing is uranium, as are the leaves. Unfortunately, uranium over cream over fuschia pink has resulted in an ugly beige and the amber trim is a murky olivey brown. It's also very damaged. It was an auction cast-off from glassobsessed, in case anyone thinks I was mad enough to pay money for it. The pictures really make it look nicer than it is.
Thoughts as to where and who would be welcomed.
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Far too pretty :o,who,what,where ? no idea, ::) ;D ;D
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Far too pretty :o,who,what,where ? no idea, ::) ;D ;D
More importantly, why? :)
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Having met the beast in the flesh, it does actually need another, to be a pair.
Then, there is a use for it. ;D
Stuck, one on each side of somebody's head, it would go really well on the sort of driver that has one of those massive "flattened" american cars, with animal horns stuck on the front bumper.
You really do need to meet it, to discover what a truly dirty shade of beige it actually is. :-X
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Meerkat with no head?
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I like it :-[ so much for good taste lol
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those feet remind me of Kralik thorn feet.
The rim reminds me of Harrach pieces.
I think it's probably Bohemian but just instinct.
I suppose it could be English as well.
Probably sat well as a pair by candelight on a nice dark fireplace in a room with dark red walls or something.
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I like it too!
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It's well-made, using some difficult techniques. :)
It is just a hotch-potch of (to me) utterly ghastly colours and design features that simply should not be together.
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And the colours really are ugly in the flesh. The photo is very flattering
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Yes, it has a "rosy glow" in the photos that doesn't exist in reality.
It just looks dirty - really like a bit of ancient, grubby bone.
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Isabelline or Isabella Grey is the name of this colour I believe.
This particular colour kept popping up in bulb catalogues selling bulb vases.
In the 1870s you could buy a certain vase in the colours Jet, Turquoise, Green, Rose du Barry and Isabella Grey. Very choice they said!
Naturally I looked up this Isabella Grey and came across the story of the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain.
It's worth a google!
And for what it is worth; the vase is believed to have been made in Bohemia for the English market.
Patricia
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Possibly that's what it's supposed to be, except this "shade" is created by the combination of three layers and a bulb vase is more likely one.
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If you have two you can click them together and you're back in Kansas!
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More likely Asgard! ;)
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that is indeed a beast. My money is on Harrach.
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Thank you Alisa