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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: LEGSY on July 04, 2021, 07:13:27 PM
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Wrecking my brains inside out on this heavy piece of glass it's steel blue
hot worked glass rim has a heavy hollow over size stopper perfect fit, Base has
lots of wear and a double polished scar. The shape seems Scandinavian to me but
for the life of me i can't find it anywhere any ideas from anybody would be most helpfull
of you and save my headache too ???All the best!!!
DAimensions 8" x 5" approx
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taking a guess with a very small amount of education - how about Wedgwood - since I once had one of their bottles a little similar to this style, and that too had a hollow stopper with very slender hole running through from the stub. Not that it's confirmation of any kind, but they they did this colouway I seem to recall. They may have been influenced by Scandi styles.
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Hiya Paul,
Yes i also agree to the color being Wedgwood or Lemington Steel very similar
i too thought the color when i purchased it reminded me of this however i had never
seen a stoppered vase version before as you mentioned they were very Scandinavian
centric from the books i have, I notice a couple of similar shaped vases so i think your thoughts
have a good weight maybe similar to Mdina glass Wedgwood supplied a stopper option on some
items?? Thanks 8)
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most of my books have now gone and I forget the title/author for Wedgwood glass - a slim softback form memory - and in the absence of books not always safe to rely on memory. The backstamp for Wedgwood - when it was applied - was an outline of the Portland Vase (sandblasted not acid etched), but perhaps like some other houses it wasn't used on seconds maybe. So my contribution now exhausted I'm afraid. :) There was once a site devoted to Wedgwood glass, but think it was abandoned fairly early in its life - would have been a very useful archive had it survived. But this is a good looking piece, and you might one day find some information.