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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Drinkwater on July 18, 2014, 03:10:05 PM
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Hello to everybody.
This is my first post, and, it's a request.
This vase I bought a few weeks ago on fleamarket in Hamburg, Germany.
There are also little silver plates in the glass. The vase is only marked 'Made in France'.
I saw her unidentified at ebay France:
http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Vase-Art-Deco-aux-motifs-Pastilles-/191250409038?pt=FR_JG_Céramiques_Verre&hash=item2c8769a64e (http://www.ebay.fr/itm/Vase-Art-Deco-aux-motifs-Pastilles-/191250409038?pt=FR_JG_Céramiques_Verre&hash=item2c8769a64e)
Who has an idea of the producer?
Sincerly your Drinkwater
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and now this:
http://www.lumieresdelaville.com/produits/vases_art_nouveau_vases_art_deco/ (http://www.lumieresdelaville.com/produits/vases_art_nouveau_vases_art_deco/)
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I don't know who made your vase but the little silver bits are mica
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that piece was originally designed to be used on a lighting fixture, hence the lip at the top. Many of these molds were then reconfigured with a plate in the bottom to make them into a free standing vase form or they could have been made and once out of the mold the bottom reheated and flattened. I somewhat recall seeing this or a similar shape that was produced by Vianne, but many of these molds traveled a bit.
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Absolutely agree. Vianne went out of business a couple of years back but still had a few styles of shades available in stock after closing. Evidently this other lighting company has the Vianne ball shade molds & has modified them into vases. I used Vianne shades for restorations on multiple lamps over the years & they manufactured several hundred shapes & styles & colors of shades.
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It's a very old fashioned style of vase with the mica and beige, 1950s or so, is it not possible that Vianne also made vases then? I often see old vases like this that look lampshadeish in origin
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Many companies used their lighting molds to make vases and vases became lamp bases. Consolidated Glass in the US did this for a long time. There was a time when I was a little involved with Vianne sales and they had an enormous number of molds that came from who knows where. For the last 20 years they operated it was always iffy as to what they produced and where it went all things in general. The sales agent for them during that time in the US was a good friend of mine. Radiant Glass/Southwestern Glass in Arkansas was also good at using different molds to make different wares as the lamp and lighting trade was taken over by machine made glass, these companies looked for any new market they could find. I remember selling punch bowls that were made from 14" lighting shade molds.
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Thanks Fuhrman for your lamp base hint. That's what Pamela suggested, she did the photos.
Also thanks for the Vianne hint. They have a museum, I will send them a photo.
Further I found this:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/192792765/french-vintage-blue-frosted-glass?ref=shop_home_active_2 (https://www.etsy.com/listing/192792765/french-vintage-blue-frosted-glass?ref=shop_home_active_2)