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Title: Sevres Vase
Post by: Smitty on February 25, 2018, 07:55:49 PM

Can anybody help me find out more about this  Sevres vase which I purchased recently. Its stands 39cms in height and weighs  3036grms, The colour is pale amber in daylight and an apple green in artificial light.  Makers name is etched to base. I assume it to be from the sixties .
Thanks

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: Paul S. on February 25, 2018, 08:13:22 PM

just possibly this piece is trichroic - as opposed to neodymium for example which is dichroic.            Some trichroic pieces do apparently show up as quite bright green under fluorescent light, and the change in colour in daylight might suggest the presence of selenium.
Have a look at this ...............    GlassyEye.com -  where there's information about both types of glass.                Regret I've no idea as to the date of this piece.

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: Smitty on February 25, 2018, 08:37:20 PM

Thanks for your interest and useful steer on the type of glass.

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on February 26, 2018, 10:00:21 AM

Does it have an opening at the top? If not perhaps a lamp base.

John

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: rocco on February 26, 2018, 11:37:43 AM

Seems to be made from so called "Heliolite" glass -- I recently posted a pair of Murano dogs, one in Neodymium (colour change from pink to blue), the other in Heliolite glass (colour change from amber to acid green)
>> https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,65986.0.html (https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,65986.0.html)

Michael

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: Paul S. on February 26, 2018, 12:42:26 PM

thanks Michael - expect you know far more than me about such things. :)

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: Smitty on February 26, 2018, 02:23:44 PM

Hi John, It does have an opening at the top but Im not sure where the cable would go. It was my first thought that it could be lamp base. But the shallowness of the actual well of the vase made me  think otherwise. I have included a picture of the top.
Thanks for you interest.

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: flying free on February 27, 2018, 02:48:48 PM

any chance of posting your pics to size 400 x 600 pixels so they enlarge sufficiently to see the piece in question please?
Maybe it is an oil lamp base - was that what you meant John?

Thanks

m

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: glassobsessed on February 27, 2018, 09:00:29 PM

No an electric lamp m, it is not unusual to find lamps from the 50s and earlier that have cords that just hang down from the fitting, instead of running through the vessel via a small hole in the base.

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: flying free on February 27, 2018, 09:32:22 PM

ah, I was thinking maybe something like this but I'm not sure about the shape of OP's to be honest:
https://leverreetlecristal.wordpress.com/2014/01/30/610-64973-e-pour-une-lampe-berger-cristallerie-de-baccarat/

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: Smitty on March 05, 2018, 10:06:37 PM

Thanks everyone for your thoughts on  the Sevres Piece . I’ve   come  to  the conclusion its late fifties early sixties and that its intended use was as a lamp base. I enclose my latest  picture of the piece in use a vase. I think it looks pretty good. Hope the size of the picture is ok this time.

Title: Re: Sevres Vase
Post by: flying free on March 05, 2018, 10:53:03 PM

looks pretty.

This is one example of a Sevres glass lamp base
https://auction.catawiki.com/kavels/15363897-sevres-crystal-glass-lamp-base

I'm not so sure about yours ... mainly the well in the middle - It makes me think it was meant to hold something.  I had been wondering if it might have been one of those giant chemists perfume bottle display things iykwim?

there is another here though in 'colour changing glass'

https://www.etsy.com/listing/520497361/20th-century-french-sevres-glass-table

m