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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: McArt on August 06, 2015, 02:38:44 PM
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Hi everybody!
I come here for help, so I got this vase and I want to know if anybody recognizes it, I already wrote an email to a person from Venini, but have not got a response yet, maybe he's not there any more... I will send another mail in a couple of days if that stays so.
I will not declare my assumptions and wishful thinkings, take a look and judge for yourself.
It's 27 cm tall and has some kind of coating except for a ring between handles.
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I associate this smoke-brown colour with Sweden and Denmark, c.1920-40, rather than with Italy.
Although I don't immediately recall the exact shape, Jacob Bang did do a few handled/footed vases for Holmegaard in the mid-1930s.
Orrefors/Sandvik would be another plausible contender.
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Hi Pinkspoons!
Thank you for the suggestion! I am aware of Scandinavian and German smoke glass, but because of the shape I did not even consider them.
I looked through the Holmegaard catalogue and did not find anything close to this shape, there are few designs with feet and fewer with handles, I did not find a vase with both.
I'll have to invest more time in Orrefors direction...
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Sorry - I didn't read your original post properly. The 'coating' would be more than a little odd for Danish glass - although recorded glass from Holmegaard of this period is very fragmentary, and there was a lot of experimentation with a lot of items that do not appear in their standard catalogues - so I wouldn't entirely discount it.
Is it iridescence, this coating?
I had a look through the Venini 'Blue Catalogue', and I couldn't find a match there. But, again, this is an incomplete record of early Venini output.
That said, I still don't *think* it's Venini - my main arguments being that 1920s-30 Muranese soffiato glass tends to be much more thinly-blown than this vase, and that the smokey-brown of Venini, CVM and the Zecchin-Martinuzzi works is more delicate and golden-yellow in tone, broadly speaking, than the rustic red-browns prevalent in Northern European glass.
Happy to be wrong, of course!
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the glass is not fat, it's not the thinnest, but for this size and volume it's only 1.2kg if I recall it correctly. the coating is barely visible, I noticed it only after taking photos. It's hard to photograph it, take a look at the first pic, in the second pic the ring is barely visible too. if there was no ring between handles I would not even notice it. I don't see any iridescence, but at this thin layer I wouldn't even if that was it.
I believe there are Venini Veronese vases in this color, I can not confirm with side by side shot unfortunately. and the shape is close enough to be open to a possibility in my mind... but as I said in the beginning that all might be just a wishful thinking.
Thank You for your time investment!