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Title: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 09, 2014, 05:58:06 PM: 8 inches high with gold flecks and a small polished pontil mark,the dealer thought it may have been S&W's but I'd be very surprised if it was, :o :o ::) ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: dirk. on March 09, 2014, 09:01:44 PM: I have a feeling it might be french perhaps, but ... just a hunch. :)
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 09, 2014, 09:18:25 PM: Hmmm,my wife just said the same thing,strange eh? ::) ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: dirk. on March 09, 2014, 09:19:34 PM: :whistling X-files theme: ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 10, 2014, 12:20:15 AM: I was thinking more 'The Twilight Zone' !! :o :o ;D ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: glassobsessed on March 10, 2014, 08:33:58 AM: You rang... :D

Could they be flecks of mica? When cased in amber they can look gold in colour.

John
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: Ivo on March 10, 2014, 10:01:47 AM: Legras, by any chance?
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 10, 2014, 02:07:10 PM: Could be right John,hadn't considered Legras thanks Ivo I'll have a look around, ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 13, 2014, 01:30:44 PM: Well I've looked at just about every type of Legras known to man ( and woman) and can't see anything like it, Ivo, what makes you think it may be Legras ?
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: Ivo on March 13, 2014, 02:38:43 PM: It is what French antique dealers usually call this colour.
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: Frank on March 13, 2014, 02:45:28 PM: Definitely seen that stuff around in France. Gold is aventurine.
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 13, 2014, 03:38:24 PM: Thanks Ivo, Frank, will look more, ;D
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: flying free on March 13, 2014, 04:18:29 PM: Keith can you do a good close up both lit and unlit of the flakes in the final layer please?
Could it be mica with an amber transparent final layer casing as John says?

m
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: glassobsessed on March 13, 2014, 05:35:35 PM: Keith's vase looks Bohemian or Czech to me. That combination of two reds and white is one Ruckl used but usually seen on an opaque reddy clay kind of colour:
http://www.burchardgalleries.com/auctions/2012/feb1912/01images/l506.htm

Would those colours look like Keith's vase if cased in amber? Anyway, here is an example of mica under amber.

John
Title: Re: Gold flecked ,trefoil lip vase,id help,please.
Post by: keith on March 14, 2014, 02:08:57 PM: Have taken a dozen pictures, this is probably the best although the colour is a bit pale and the flecks look more silver than gold ( cheap camera ::))