Topic: Whitefriars Sky Blue Knobbly??

[luckytom]

Have this vase. It looks like a whitefriars knobbly vase. It has a highly polished pontil base- slightly chipped. Also has bubbles in the glass. Though its 11.5 inches is it a second a frigger or just a lookalike?

Any help is appreciated

[chopin-liszt]

hi, I would suspect you have something nice and Czech there, not wfs.

[rocco]

With that base finish quite certainly not Czech

Sorry, no idea where it might come from, knobbly pieces like this one were made in many countries, for instance the Baltic region, Romania, Yugoslavia, Japan....

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

 
Thank-you, Michael. Still learning. There is a lot to learn. 
But I do have a very odd Vizner piece, with a base not unlike that - only the polished shape in the base is more triangular than round.
It is suspected that it is a non-standard piece that "escaped" from the factory.

[rocco]

Hi Sue
there is always the odd exception to the rule (and if the vase was a well documented pattern from a Czech glassworks like your Vizner piece, I would not object to the attribution).

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

It is a well documented design, the "toffee" or "pineapple" one. Rectangular green blobs all over a topaz centre. But not a standard size. It is a definite oddity.
It's good to know this sort of base finish is not normal.

None of this is helping the original query though.

What about Japan as a sugggestion of origin to add to the list?

[Tigerchips]

Kingsware maybe?

[vidrioguapo]

Think you may be right Tigerchips, here's a link to whitefriars.com forum showing the Kingsware catalogue

http://www.whitefriars.com/smf1/index.php/topic,1636.msg36490.html#msg36490