Topic: MODERN AMETHYST GLASS WAISTED PITCHER VASE=ID HELP?

[dorian_graye]

Hello to all.  I found this pitcher at an antique shop with a tag that just stated it as "Danish Style Pitcher".  I've never seen one like it before, so I purchased it in hopes that someone in the forum might be able to identify it.  I thought perhaps it might be Whitefriars or Nuutajarvi.  Of course, I might be way off.  The rim on the pitcher has been polished and the base has a clear glass casing.  It measures 11" inches tall.  Thank you for your help in advance.

[Lustrousstone]

It's not Whitefriars for a start

[Ivo]

I'd rather think in the direction of Wiesenthalhütte or Hirschberg - I doubt if any scandinavian would bring a pitcher on the market that cannot be cleaned at all.

[Anik R]

Polish designers of the 60s and 70s were also fond of these 'waisted' and uncleanable designs.  
The first is an example by Stefan Sadowski
http://www.stefan-sadowski.pl/galeria_e.html <-----Mod: hover mouse over image to see the grid then look at 3rd row, 2nd item see also book Ceramika i Szkło Polskie XX Wieku, Wrocław 2004.

The second by Krzysztof Meckier - see book Szkło Wrocławskie, Wrocław 1970.

Mod: Anik's images from in-copyright publications replaced with online link and book refs after discussion with Anik

[dorian_graye]

I was completely unaware of Polish designers.  Thank you for those examples.  Don't these Scandinavian designs appear "uncleanable"?  I'm surprised such a statement like that would be made in a forum with so much experience. No, these are not "pitchers", but don't vases need cleaned also?

[Lustrousstone]

Vases are often simply ornaments rather than for flowers. Pitchers one would expect to be used. Designers do not always consider the practicalities of the things they create.

[dorian_graye]

"Designers do not always consider the practicalities of the things they create."  Well, than they would not be very good designers.  A good designer would consider all possibilities.  That seems to be a problem with modern design.  Fashion before function, I guess.

[Lustrousstone]

I don't think it's a modern problem particularly or typical of all designers, just a fact of life.

[Paul S.]

the comment that these things are uncleanable, has been largely invalidated in recent times with the advent of 'Magic Balls'.    Small pots of these copper coated balls - which are sold specifically for cleaning decanters and vases - may be used with or without a liquid additive (i.e. metal polish) - and can achieve very good results.     I would, however, agree that there remains a small percentage of glass pieces that, either due to glass make up, or chemicals in the water, will defy improvement by this method, in view of the 'damage' that has occurred to the glass.      If it is just a matter of cleaning, then these copper balls should do the trick

[Lustrousstone]

I think Anik was thinking more of the washing up...