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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Rubydo on September 09, 2015, 08:03:13 PM

Title: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: Rubydo on September 09, 2015, 08:03:13 PM

Hi I'm a newbie  :) can anyone help me ID this vase
It has no marks it is a turquoise blue glass, heavy and 12" x 10"

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: dirk. on September 10, 2015, 05:57:41 AM

Hiya and welcome,
to me this looks like a pottery vase rather than glass...
Could you give us a base shot of the piece, please, and possibly one of the top rim?
Dirk

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: Rubydo on September 10, 2015, 02:41:28 PM

Thank you for your reply.
Here is a picture of the rim

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: Rubydo on September 10, 2015, 02:42:22 PM

And the base.
It looks like glass.

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 10, 2015, 03:10:53 PM

It does indeed look like glass - now!
But it is doing quite an effective job of looking like some rather wonderful German ceramics.  :)
welcome.

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: Rubydo on September 10, 2015, 09:55:03 PM

Yeah I bought it from a charity shop, when I first saw it I thought it was pottery lava vase.
But then I realised it was heavy glass. I've not been to find anything like it on the net .
It's a nice piece very organic looking but I have no idea of origin .

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: dirk. on September 11, 2015, 08:11:39 AM

Wow. It´s a very interesting piece. Having said that I must admit I´ve never seen anything alike
I´m afraid...  ???

Title: Re: ID help for a lava style vase
Post by: Rubydo on September 11, 2015, 08:26:26 AM

Pics don't really do it justice. But I'm interested in different glass techniques. I do a bit of glass slumping and fusing myself . But there is small practicals of sand in the surface so I was wondering if it was sand cast or maybe it had something thrown on it to create the effect . I don't know how they make the German lava vases but it looks like a similar technique but with glass . Just always bugged me that I can find no info .