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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Birkyc on September 15, 2023, 07:21:38 PM
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Can anyone help to identify this unusual vase, presumably 1960s or 70s, possibly Scandinavian?
17cm tall, 14cm maximum diameter, 6.5cm diameter base, weighs 530g.
Not cased or lined.
Thank you in anticipation.
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I can't quite make out how the top and base are connected.
The American company Blenko made this similar to this, as did Zbigniew Horbowy in Poland, ('70s era) but I think this might be from elsewhere and possibly newer.
The glass seems (very nicely) thick and the colour is not one I associate with either. It is also rather small for either of them.
It's fabulous. 8)
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I agree it is fabulous! It is blown in one piece I think. the glass in the lower section is thicker than that the top, which is relatively thin, the thick rim at the mouth gives a false impression of the glass thickness in the bulbous top section. I have added some more pictures to help to show more of how it is formed. Glad it's not just me that thinks it's fabulous.
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The photograph of the neck rim looks as though it's not been highly polished? Is that just the photograph?
Great colour and shape!
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I would say it has not been highly polished. It is smooth but the raking light shows some texture there.
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How does it compare to the base finish?
The roughness of the rim, which is enough to catch the light in this way, does not look consistent with the rest of it which is quality.
I'm now wondering if there might have been another big bubble on top of the one still htere, and there has been a repair job done to cut it down. ???
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I have attached a picture of the base finish, also another of the rim. What do you think?
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;D The base has age-related wear, and I do not think it has been added. It looks just right.
But I can't tell if any part of it has been polished to a smooth high shine or not, from the photo.
The rim looks well done, I can't see edges, but it is just not as smooth and shiney as we'd expect - especially on something that is relying on a very clean kind of space-age feeling about it. ???
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I will take a couple more of the base with different lighting angles and add them tomorrow.
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Base pictures, see if they help.
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Is there a sort of ripple-y depression in the middle?
That might indicate mould blown.
If the depression is round and smooth with a high shine, it's had a pontil rod broken off and the remaining scar was polished.
Which was why I wanted to see if that bit had been polished. to compare it to the rim.
If they'd done the base properly, there would be no reason for the rim to be left rough. But I'm really not sure now.
We could do with some input from others who might have more ideas or knowledge. :)
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I've bumped this thread of my green bowl because the short cut neck on yours reminded me slightly of this but mine is completely smoothly polished and finished.
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,70149.msg390668.html#msg390668
I wonder if your vase is something more contemporary. The rim finish isn't great quality because it's not highly polished and finished if you see what I mean?
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No sign of a polished broken off pontil rod polished scar, and does have a rippley shallow depression. Just a point to note that the base is also hollow, not solid, though much thicker glass than the dome. Is it posssible to do that in a mould blown piece?n (Sorry, not an expert!). To behonest you wouldn't know the rim was "rough", only shows in a raking light.
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oh ok, sometimes it is a trick of the camera and lighting.