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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Chris Harrison on June 14, 2006, 06:19:24 PM
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http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2307
The last one for a while, I promise!
Gorgeous grey colour, with a tinge of purple in the base. Small aperture at the rim. Very heavy. 9"/22cm tall. Base ground flat, with punty ground out in centre.
Been trying to identify this for about 5 years, now, without much luck.
Thanks for any help.
Chris
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I have one similar in grey by Okkolin but not quite the same. Yours looks scandi.
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Where the colours join looks very uneven... aren't Scandi ones usually more evenly curved that this?
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There isn't actually any hiatus between the colours. The purple is more of a gradual tinge in the base. The base is about 1.5" thick, 1" being coloured and the final 0.5" is clear. The inside of the vase has a flat base. The first photo must have some accidental refraction that shows a line in the glass.
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-2310
...is another photo of the mystery vase up against a Whitefriars pewter medium bark. I think this shows that the purple tinge is generalised and not just in the base, but the base shows up the purple tinge well against any backlight.
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Uurgh, it's late and I'm blethering. I hope you the previous posting makes sense... :roll:
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Have recently been shown an identical vase with a WMF sticker.
Probably part of the range designed by Wilhelm Wagenfeld in the 1950s.
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See here www.glaskilian.de/WMF.426.0.html
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Thanks, Christine.
Yep, that's the beast. Mine's half as big again, but I think it's pretty clear it has to be from the same family.
Cheers,
Chris
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The Wagenfeld vases aren't cased. and as such are the same colour all the way through. Wagenfeld vases of that range are generally a rauchtopaz colour, which is to say a smoked grey/brown, rather than purple-tinged. Also, the bases on the WMF vases aren't as rounded as yours.
I personally don't think they're closely related. Perhaps kissing cousins, at best. :D
Your vase looks very 60s/70s to me, and the small hole at the top isn't an uncommon feature in both European and Scandinavian glass.
But these are just my opinions, and I may be wrong. It's frequently been known to occur. :lol:
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i think it looks very Polish - it certainly is no WMF and does not look Scandinavian to me. The shape is contemporary - wide shoulders, small opening....
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Thanks for the help, guys. I'm completely open-minded on this.
How contemporary is "contemporary"? I know where this has been since the late 1970s (although it was in someone else's house, not mine).
The base has a good amount of wear, certainly comparable with pieces I have from the 50s. This appears genuine and random rather than "helped along" with sandpaper or such like.
Might vases such as this have been coming out of Poland in the 50s or 60s?