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Title: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: Alsretro on September 16, 2015, 05:01:38 PM

Picked this up today half expecting to see a Vasart signature on what looks like a Vasart style base to me but there is nothing there. Scotland's Glass has a similar style vase  with a Strathearn label but information there describes it as Ysart brothers for Strathearn. Looking through the GMB for rim gilding on Vasart this thread http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2709.msg20279.html#msg20279 (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,2709.msg20279.html#msg20279) shows Vasart VO16 but how that has a shaped foot (looks like it too has rim gilding).
Any thoughts on my vase which is 3 3/8ins high x 3 5/8ins at its widest, would be much appreciated. I could, of course, be completely wrong and this vase will turn out to be neither Vasart or Strathearn  :)
Alastair

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: orangeglass on September 16, 2015, 05:13:53 PM

I would say most likely Vasart, there are occasional ones come up with the gilded edges....... but....... it can  often be difficult to distinguish between late Vasart and early Strathearn.
I have a posy basket in the same colourway (without the gilding) which is marked Vasart.

Also, there are still lots of shapes  out there which are still unrecorded - though I would say your is a V016 variant...see link
http://www.ysartglass.com/Vascat/VasV001.htm

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: Alsretro on September 16, 2015, 05:19:52 PM

Thanks for that Roberta.
Alastair

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 16, 2015, 05:47:12 PM

I don't think I've ever seen a base like that on Nazeing, so I would count them out as any potential alternative.

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: orangeglass on September 16, 2015, 05:55:48 PM

Hi - it's definitely Vasart or Strathearn - very typical base for them on the small "tourist" pieces  ;)

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: Gary on September 18, 2015, 02:45:25 PM

Definitely(IMHO) Vasart.
Vasart made them with and without the applied foot.
In my opinion one of the nicest of the Vasart shapes.
Gary

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: Alsretro on September 19, 2015, 10:22:43 AM

Thanks Sue and Gary for the responses.
Alastair

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: millarart on September 19, 2015, 03:07:16 PM

im sure that Pirelli glass who decorated the babycham and the martini  glasses for vasart may have decorated these small vasart pieces with gilded rims

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: Alsretro on September 19, 2015, 04:13:16 PM

I wondered about that too Gary.

Title: Re: Vasart or Strathearn Gilded Rim Tricorn Vase
Post by: millarart on September 19, 2015, 04:29:47 PM

Quote from: Alsretro on September 19, 2015, 04:13:16 PM

I wondered about that too Gary.

yup sure im correct , I have a few