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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: wiggy131 on March 02, 2021, 04:10:36 PM
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Hi, can anyone recognise this small aventurine glass vase in a Aquamarine blue colour? It has a pontil on the base, but it has a faint seam line in the glass at one side.
It would be great to find out more about it, and the age.
Thanks
Vickie
(https://i.imgur.com/0UMRDGB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/l4H9Xvh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5midhOc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hgQNhGF.jpg)
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:) It's not aventurine, it has been covered in silver foil, then blown a bit more, which breaks the foil up. It's just tarnished on the surface - rubbing it with your thumb should be enough to clean it up a bit. ;D
I do not understand why you'd have a mould seam of any description on a small round vase with a pontil scar. The scar comes from it being broken off the pontil rod after being blown; a mould blown piece won't have that, unless it was worked further after being taken out of the mould and this is not that complex.
I'm sorry, I don't have a clue who made it. :'(
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Hi Sue, thanks for the info, It will give me a start to who may of made it. Do glass blowers blow bottles into a mould to get a uniform size?
Best Wishes
Vickie
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Ordinary bottles and lots of decorative bottles will be mass-produced and mould blown in big factories, but this is Studio Glass. Blown without a mould. :)
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Hi Sue I came across this website http://www.thegildedcurio.com/item-Italian-811.html
could it be scavo technique by Mario Gambaro?
I tracked down his place of work, so I emailed the images, so I'll let you know if I get a reply!
Thanks
Vickie
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Scavo is an acid treatment of the surface. That piece has broken silver foil on it, as your little bottle does, but I can't see any other similarities. :)
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Hi, I just had confirmation from the firm that it isn't him!
Never mind, its a pretty little vase!
Best Wishes
Vickie