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Title: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: petet63 on October 31, 2014, 06:31:54 PM

Hi, I have this beautiful Caithness Vase. Blue, Crystal and Cut. I cant find a pattern name or maker. Any Clues ? as I cant even find a similar vase.

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: nigel benson on November 01, 2014, 01:05:09 AM

Hi Pete,

Designed by Helen MacDonald for Caithness in 2002 - from the Art Deco series. I believe this shape is known as 'Los Angeles'.

Nigel

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: Wuff on November 01, 2014, 10:48:05 AM

"Art Deco" shows first up in the 2003 catalogue, where two colourwas are given: Kingfisher and Gold. The catalogue image (below) is rather pale - so I am not going to place any bets whether your vase is Kingfisher (just showing up much darker in your images) or whether a different colourway was added later. Mark Hill doesn't mention any other colours in his book (page 99) where a Manhattan vase in Gold is depicted.

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: petet63 on November 01, 2014, 12:49:38 PM

The picture was taken at night with a light so does appear darker in the image. Thanks again for the info and help. I must be getting worse at finding things which is not good. I thought it would have been an easy on line find. Onece again GMB comes up Trumps. Much appreciated Nigel and Wuff. If you need Pictures Wuff I will take a couple in Natural light and you can use them.

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: nigel benson on November 01, 2014, 10:36:12 PM

They also used amethyst and grey, although, as you say, this is not generally known  :o   NOTE: The colours were probably known under different names.

Design in often takes a year to appear in the catalogue  ;)  :)

Nigel

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on November 02, 2014, 08:38:10 AM

Sold the very large conical purple or amethyst vase last week (top right in the catalogue photo), so they definitely exist 'in the wild', it must have been somewhere around 10" by 10" and was very heavy.

Sorry no photo of it.

John

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: Paul S. on November 02, 2014, 08:58:43 AM

nice pieces - I don't recall seeing them on my travels - so perhaps less than common.            The style of cutting looks to have features in common with some of the cut designs from W/Wilson's 1930's W/F's patterns  -  straight lines and square cuts - very geometric, which accounts for the name of the range I guess.

Title: Re: Caithness Cut Crystal Vase
Post by: petet63 on November 02, 2014, 10:25:01 PM

Found the range in replacements. They are really nice pieces. This has to go online eventually
So will enjoy it for a while yet. Thanks again for the help.
http://www.replacements.com/webquote/CO_CTGMISGARDC.htm