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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: bat20 on June 05, 2014, 05:10:28 PM
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Hi all,i can't make this little 9cm oval vase out,it looks old but has no wear to the base,no shear mark or polished pontil,just a 1.5cm circle,the top is flat with a slight bevel so maybe a bohemian piece.I hope you can see the etching that to me looks like ferns growing out of a couple of toilets ???,i think it maybe soda glass,but not sure,any thoughts many thanks .
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I can't help, but I'm laughing so hard, they ARE growing out of toilets!
Thank you for the laugh!
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It's engraved not etched and I think it's a glass not a vase and English. Perhaps late 1830s onward when pteridomania kicked off
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Ahh,i did mean to say engraved,promise,well that certainly pre dates the close coupled toilet!,i have to admit the glass bit surprises me as i haven't seen one like it before with a very narrow opening at the top and such a flat rim,nice surprise though ,thanks.What sort of drink would this glass have been made for?
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I take the glass back because I hadn't realised it was flattened :-[
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Thank god for that Christine,i've been sat here getting my top lip stuck in it fo 20mins ;D
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As long as that's all!! It's probably for violets; you see violet vases in lots of the catalogues
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we're not talking a rummer here Christine.... ;)is the circle on the base something to do with putting a foot on an oval shape i wonder.
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Circle is just the remains of the glass blob used to stick it to the punty iron. Just not polished off.
There is an scholarly article of fern vases on-line somewhere, search with Scotland/Scottish as one of the words. Not saying it is Scottish though.
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Thanks i'll look it up.
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Truthfully i still don't get it to be honest,do you mean broken off and then reheated,coz there's no sharp bits,the other odd thing about it i think is the total lack of any wear. ???
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Look at the outside edges with a loupe; I bet you find plenty of wear.
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It doesn't sit on the very edge Christine,more middle of the foot and it strangely hasn't got a hint of wear,but everything about it looks old,i guess it might be a piece that for some reason was never used?
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Yes broken off, then fire polished. But if it is not sitting properly, perhaps a second. Odd the engraver did not fix that. Did think Strathearn as they did the shape but not with a cut rim.
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I'm not sure there was a properly Frank,it sits flat ,just not on the outer edge.