Topic: Scandinavian? Clear Small globe vase with exceptional controlled bubbles!!

[obscurities]

I picked this up today in an antique mall. It is approx 4 inches tall. It is exceptionally well executed and is quite thick. I would estimate the weight at 3 lbs or so. The controlled bubbles are done about as well as any piece of glass I have ever seen. It seems extremely Scandinavian to me, and it also seems I have seen this in a brown and clear glass also. Dished and polished pontil mark area.......

A great piece I am hoping someone can identify for me........

TIA
Craig

[Cathy B]

Ivo will confirm or otherwise, but this seems to be an Andries Copier designed crystal ball vase for Leerdam, designed in the 1930s and made over a long time. They seem to be distinguishable by the very evenly formed, tiny bubbles on that tight grid. They're gorgeous.

I'm not sure that the coloured versions you have seen are Leerdam. Ivo?

[Anik R]

I don't think I can help, but it's a beautiful piece, Craig...

[obscurities]

Cathy, I found an article in the Glassmuseum.com by Ivo which pictures the same vase and confirms your attribution.....  I also found a light blue one on ebay and have asked if it is OK to post an image from the listing on here for reference.... Thanks....

Anik....  I guess it was a good buy for $10 - It is really pretty.....  :thup:

Craig

[langhaugh]

Craig:

Nice buy. I hope it wasn't in the Antique Mall on S. Lander, as I went through there last week and didn't see it.

David

[Ivo]

All confirmed, there is one on every market in Holland usually going around 40 euros depending on size and signed is more than unsigned. A couple of years ago Leerdam took them into production again and was selling them at 120. I don't think these come in colours, at least not here. I have seen a blue one once with a sticker "made in Japan" - FWIW.

[astrid]

According to "Leerdam Glas  1878 - 2003" by A. van der Kley-Blekxtoon, these Serica from 1936 were also made with the colours green, blue and red inside. I've seen a number of red ones so far.

Astrid

[obscurities]

Nice buy. I hope it wasn't in the Antique Mall on S. Lander, as I went through there last week and didn't see it.

No David, a small little mall in Coburg Oregon...... although I do regularly go to the S Lander mall and find some good buys occasionally.  I used to run an auction in the other half of that building....

Did you find anything there?
Wish I had known you were in town..... would have loved to have met...

Craig

[obscurities]

I am adding some images of a blue example from ebay. Used here with the permission of the seller Bluzinger.
Blue example with a label reading - Leerdam  Made in Holland.
Size wise this is smaller than my clear one. The blue one is 2.5 inches tall and 2.75 inches in diameter.
Any info on this label age?
Craig

[astrid]

The information on labels is not very extensive in the book I mentioned, but from 1957 onwards Leerdam used the prefix "Royal", or a crown on top of the label. This shape label without the Royal bit was according to the book in use between 1953 and 1957.

Astrid