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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Isla on May 26, 2014, 02:10:23 PM

Title: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: Isla on May 26, 2014, 02:10:23 PM

Hi there,

I would like help in identifying this sold glass object I bought from an antiques center the other day. I think it may be a candlestick, but am open to other ideas. I have looked online and can see nothing like it, I would love to know when it was made, and by whom and where if possible.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Thank you

Isla

Title: Re: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: glassobsessed on May 26, 2014, 08:07:08 PM

Welcome to the forum Isla.

I can't see much detail in your photo, it is a bit small. Can you take another shot? A plain white background helps too.

John

Title: Re: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: Isla on May 27, 2014, 08:23:26 AM

Hi John,

Thanks for the reply, I hope this is a better picture. It stands 16cm high and is 9cm in diameter.

Thanks

Isla

Title: Re: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: glassobsessed on May 28, 2014, 05:30:31 PM

Sorry no idea what the intended purpose might have been, it almost looks as though it is a marriage with someone adding extra bits to the top and bottom.

I have seen many vases and perfume bottles with the same internal colours and trailed decoration around the outside, they are modern and I believe Chinese production.

Here is an example: http://indulgy.com/post/TBi8QF3vp1/hand-blown-blue-pink-sommerso-oval-art-glass-vas

John

Title: Re: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: Isla on May 28, 2014, 07:31:41 PM

Thanks John, for your help with this. Looking closer now I think it is a marriage - very helpful.

Isla

Title: Re: Help in identifying this glass object
Post by: Jeffingtons on May 29, 2014, 06:07:16 PM

I've seen two of these in Birmingham (or the same one twice in different places). I couldn't work out what it was supposed to be either. The skewiffedness of them made them not much use as candlesticks