Topic: Rim-trailed Czech vase

[angel2]

Hi all!
Has anyone any ideas about attribution for this vase? It's very fine glass and lovelier in the flesh!
Thanks for any help you can give, angel2

[angel2]

I thought I needed to show better images!

[flying free]

Very pretty, how do you know it is Czech glass please?  Is it marked in someway?
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[angel2]

Hi!
Thanks for your interest. Surely it has to be Czech doesn't it?
It's a bit like a tango vase but super, super quality, it can't be easy to make such ultrafine glass.
I forgot to mention that the interior is opalescent which doesn't show so well in the images.
angel2

[Ivo]

Size, please - the way I read it now is that it is lampwork, the really ultralight work which is mostly from Germany or Italy. And it does not strike me as particularly Czech----

[Lustrousstone]

How tall is it? Can we have a base shot please.

[angel2]

Hi!
Excuse my ignorance but I just assumed it was Czech.  :spls2:
It is nearly 12cms/4.5" tall and has a lot more iridescence than I thought - but subtle. I bought it in Holland if that's any use.
Hope this base shot helps

[Ivo]

I think you're looking with high probability at a piece of lampwork made in Germany. Could be anywhere from Lauscha to North Bavaria - there are quite a lot of artists who specialise in this type of work which is fashioned over a gas flame from prefabricated rods. In that sense it is not like the glass we normally discuss here - it does not require a pot of molten glass, just a gas flame and some rods. O, and some colours, metal salts and some skill. Some of the lampworked items (big names) make big bucks - but a lot of it is made in anonymity and will not fly high...

[angel2]

 :angel:   Thanks Ivo!   
Just realised that it was bought somewhat in your neck of the woods -Hoek De Holland
If anyone knows anything more, that'd be great.