Topic: large green aventurine fleck vase with handles

[flying free]

this one has a label on the base stating  The Pier apparently £14.95 - the base also seems to be the same as yours Steve.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PIER-TURQUOISE-COPPER-METALLIC-FLECK-DESIGNED-VASE-/110713132150?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Decorative_Accents_LE&hash=item19c7045476

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[obscurities]

I believe that Dale Tiffany imports the glass and most other products from China.....  I do not believe that he "manufactures" anything, but markets a lot and may do some final assembly of parts in the US.....

If I am not mistaken he has marketed and built an import company revolving around the last name of Tiffany.

Craig

[sceaj]

Tam Bam's post on fossilfly seems to match. The red one on your link shows the exact color scheme and a turquoise one on your older Fossilfly post is the same body shape, so  Dale Tiffany seems possible. I would prefer it to be Italian or Spanish or American, but even if it is Chinese, I think it looks nice. The aventurine part is hammered in an odd way, and the gray is strange, almost like a pottery finish. Thanks everybody for some very good hints and expertise

[KevinH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8hfswXRyFw

The Video link above has a couple of interesting points:

1) At 50 secs, click Pause, then double click to step through frame by frame, bringing into view two blue and "brown" vases in the lower right corner of the image. I suspect the "brown" could be aventurine. Both vases have small loop handles at the neck and the one to the right seems to have the rounded loop shape as seen in the vase in this thread and other threads, including the Fossilfly one mentioned earlier.

2) At 1 minute 20 secs listen to the commentary about the modern art glass, where it is said, "... manufactured in our own facility in China ..."

Ok, these snippets are not conclusive proof of anything, and the blue-brown vases do not appear to have the obvious "pull ups" within the decor as in the other vases discussed. But taken as a whole I think there is enough there to make a good case for these mystery vases to be from the Dale Tiffany company and quite possibly made in China.

Perhaps an email to the company would settle the matter?