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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: WhiteHound on December 05, 2024, 11:00:40 PM
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Hi,
New to GMB; relatively new to glass: I have a few pieces of Whitefriars, but wouldn't (yet) call myself a collector... Hope someone can help identify a vase I got a few months ago.
It's just under 7¾" tall (169mm), is roughly square (outside size is 2¼", ~58mm) and the glass about 4mm thick. Top half is lightish brown; bottom is a darker green. Texturing is similar to the Whitefriars bark pattern. Base is smooth: no pontil nor any registration mark that I can see.
I was fairly certain it wasn't Whitefriars when I bought it (I just liked it), and from a quick scan of these boards, I thought it might be Ingrid glass, but I came across this post by rocco (https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,52989.msg300973.html#msg300973) saying that they hadn't seen any two-colour Ingrid glass.
Can anyone shine any light, please?
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Japanese I think
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Sasaki if I remember well.
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Thanks for the replies. First, an apology: I somehow mis-entered the height – it should be 6¾" (is there a way of editing a post? A help page (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Posting) for Simple Machines says "select the Modify link or the (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/images/4/4d/Modify_inline.gif) icon", but I can't see either...).
Sasaki looks plausible, although I'm not certain: mine has the same "style" of colouring as the vase in bark vase in tequila sunrise (https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,57969.msg328590.html), which may be Sasaki, but my base is noticeably squarer than that example (and the one linked in the first response).
However, searching down the Japanese route (which I didn't know was "a thing" before your responses) led me to Tajima. As far as I can judge, the shape and texture appears to be a near 100% match to Tajima Japanese Bark Textured Red Cased Glass Vase (https://www.20thcenturyglass.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=477_275_284&products_id=5266) on 20th Century Glass (and the revised height matches), and my colours appear to be the same as Tajima Japanese "Best Art Glass" Textured Bark Amber & Green Glass Vase (https://www.20thcenturyglass.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=477_275_284&products_id=9409) from the same site.
Unless more experienced minds say otherwise, I think I'll go with Tajima.