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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: snesbit on April 16, 2021, 01:40:37 PM
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Looking for a little help on this opalescent Victorian era vase.
Blown paneled optic with ruby / white opaque canes arranged in a pillared design. Opalescent highlights to the UV fluorescing pale green ground.
Nice size measuring 13 ¾” high and 6 1/2” across the ruffled top rim. Circular polished pontil mark.
So I was guessing Bohemian c 1890s but maybe one of the Brits. Any ideas?
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Hi, it looks like the dots on your vase may be formed in a continuous spiral going around the body? If so, it might be made using the technique patented by H Wilkinson in 1905 as described here:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,69040.msg384526.html#msg384526
The technique involved winding a coloured glass thread onto a vertically ribbed shape so that the thread only sticks to the peaks of the ribs. The shape is then spun and heated. Spinning stops the thread sticking to the shape in the troughs between ribs and heating breaks the thread where it hasn’t stuck, the broken threads melt back to a blob or spot where it adhered to the rib peaks. This gives an effect of vertical rows of uniformly spaced dots. It can then be blown and shaped as desired.
In his patent (ref Hajdamach), Wilkinson says that if he uses a fancy thread (instead of a plain coloured one) then a fancy bead or dot would result. Maybe that’s what’s seen in your fancy dots.
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Thanks so much for the information!
Interesting technique and based on a closer examination of the vase, I think you're definitely right.
I guess more research to determine which companies working during the 1900 - 1920 produced this style using the technique.
Again, thank you for your input and time to respond.
Shawn