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Title: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Alex156 on August 04, 2019, 01:04:02 PM: Could you help to identify a vaze - glass green and white, Size 20x7 cm
May be is it Scandinavian? RIIHIMAKE LASI OY ???
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: glassobsessed on August 07, 2019, 05:31:04 PM: Welcome to the message board Alex156.

Sorry, not seen your vase before and it is distinctive. Guessing no marks on the base and a cut and polished rim?

John
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: catshome on August 07, 2019, 06:21:48 PM: Does the moulded image extend to the side panels? And can you work out what the figure is holding in the right hand?
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Alex156 on August 07, 2019, 07:18:54 PM: Google knows everything)) https://www.chairish.com/product/1027316/mid-century-smalandshyttan-blue-glass-vase-josef-schott
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: flying free on August 07, 2019, 08:04:20 PM: Was it produced as an 'award' for a swimming championship, or I'm assuming diving from the label on the base?

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Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Alex156 on August 08, 2019, 07:10:40 PM: Maybe it’s a 'award', but I don’t know for sure
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: flying free on August 08, 2019, 07:31:52 PM: ooh the owner of this one says they had a red one which they won as a sporting award many years ago :)

https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/79212-josef-schott--smalandshyttan-sweden

Be interesting to know what yours was for.

It doesn't appear to be the Swedish Swimming Federation as that is the SSF. (established 1904)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Swimming_Federation#Organisation
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Anne on August 08, 2019, 07:47:07 PM: I've asked in the swimming communities I'm involved with, and on Twitter, to see if anyone recognises the logo. It's a distinctive one for sure.
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Alex156 on August 09, 2019, 06:41:51 AM: flying free, Anne thanks!!!
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: catshome on August 09, 2019, 08:05:02 AM: There's a notice on an Australian school website "GDSS swimming cancelled"......maybe one of the Australian members will be able to shed more light on it.
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Anne on August 09, 2019, 12:55:53 PM: Well found Cat, that didn't show up in my earlier search. I've emailed the school to ask if they recognise the logo. Fingers crossed!
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: catshome on August 09, 2019, 03:00:20 PM: Found a similar vase, in what looks like the same series, with a Schott label. So at least we have evidence for the attribution.

http://thescandinaviangroup.com/art-glass/unusual-1960s-josef-schott-smalandshyttan-sweden-art-glass-vase-label/
Title: Re: Help identify a strange vase, please
Post by: Anne on August 09, 2019, 11:59:42 PM: I've seen a few of the same shaped vases with the bobbly sides and a different figure on the front, but none of them were labelled as Schott, so this is a good find Cat. :)