Topic: Unknown Teardrop Vase - ??? No clue (or nothing) ??

[antiquerose123]

 :hi:

found this and have no clue about it...or anything worthy at all.  Is it Chinese as I think I have been looking at too much glass lately and I am getting  :ho:

It is 7 inches tall, and 4 inches wide at the widest point.  Tiny opening at top.  Pontil scar on base with some wear.

something, nothing, or back in the bin...LOL



***(Anne sent you a email via pottery .....will b there..........)

[Lustrousstone]

Looks like a piece of studio glass to me Rose

[antiquerose123]

Looks like a piece of studio glass to me Rose

Oh really  I had no idea.

It kinda has an iridescent shine to it.  Would you call that shape ?? teardrop ? or something else? 

Thanks Lustrousstone  :kissy:  :thup: as always

[Lustrousstone]

Assuming the iridescence isn't all over, I think it's from where the silver chloride, which has been used to make the yellow streaks, has come right to the surface of the glass.

[langhaugh]

Just to agree with Christine. There are quite a few examples of pretty primitive glass making from the 1970's/80's around Canada.  I've been told that this is the easiest shape to blow. The ethos at the time was don't let technique thwart artistic vision. The problem was that there wasn't any artistic vision either. I recently found a piece by a glassblower I know and found out he had made it in the first month of blowing glass 36 years previously.  He was quite embarrassed by it and couldn't understand why anyone had kept it. I think they're interesting curios.


David

[CultureVulture]

As if someone started to blow and then changed their mind and went out for coffee and cigarette. Came back and thought "ill just put that to one side". If the same thing happened in a coin mint the coin would be rare and worth a fortune.  I like it anyway and i have a bin here send it here to me and ill put it in my bin :24: then on emptying day id craftily have it for my shelf.

[Frank]

You have to bear in mind that at the time these were mind boggling concepts and also close to the natural form of a blown form. Artists were only really just starting to use the materials and learning the ropes. It does not take a lot f experience to make a blob, but years to take control of the form.

[antiquerose123]

Here are a couple more pics -- if they help at all....in different light (a bit).   I have not found nothing on the Net even close to it .....yet.....and all your thoughts on it.  I have no clue  :thud:

[langhaugh]

Rose, with this one, if it's not signed and you don't bump into the maker, it will forever remain unattributed. 

David

[Lustrousstone]

Just enjoy it. It's a lovely example of silver chloride at work.