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Title: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: luckytom on August 22, 2015, 03:36:41 PM

Have this vase. It looks like a whitefriars knobbly vase. It has a highly polished pontil base- slightly chipped. Also has bubbles in the glass. Though its 11.5 inches is it a second a frigger or just a lookalike?

Any help is appreciated

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 22, 2015, 04:16:11 PM

hi, I would suspect you have something nice and Czech there, not wfs. :)

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: rocco on August 23, 2015, 10:50:50 AM

With that base finish quite certainly not Czech ;)

Sorry, no idea where it might come from, knobbly pieces like this one were made in many countries, for instance the Baltic region, Romania, Yugoslavia, Japan....

Michael

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 23, 2015, 11:01:42 AM

 :-[
Thank-you, Michael. Still learning. There is a lot to learn.  ::)
But I do have a very odd Vizner piece, with a base not unlike that - only the polished shape in the base is more triangular than round.
It is suspected that it is a non-standard piece that "escaped" from the factory.

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: rocco on August 23, 2015, 12:54:32 PM

Hi Sue :)
there is always the odd exception to the rule (and if the vase was a well documented pattern from a Czech glassworks like your Vizner piece, I would not object to the attribution).

Michael

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 23, 2015, 02:14:03 PM

It is a well documented design, the "toffee" or "pineapple" one. Rectangular green blobs all over a topaz centre. But not a standard size. It is a definite oddity.
It's good to know this sort of base finish is not normal. ;D

None of this is helping the original query though. :-[

What about Japan as a sugggestion of origin to add to the list?

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: Tigerchips on August 24, 2015, 11:30:51 PM

Kingsware maybe?

Title: Re: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??
Post by: vidrioguapo on August 26, 2015, 05:35:26 PM

Think you may be right Tigerchips, here's a link to whitefriars.com forum showing the Kingsware catalogue

http://www.whitefriars.com/smf1/index.php/topic,1636.msg36490.html#msg36490