Topic: help with I.D large vase

[pugster]

any help with an I.D on this vase is much appreciated , it has no signature and is a large heavy piece measuring 9.5" tall and 9" accross the top at it widest point - the base is ground completely flat .

[chopin-liszt]

Hiya, and sorry I can't help with your vase, I'd just like to ask you, pretty please would you try to make your titles describe the item?
Sometimes ids can take a long time, many folk here hept a good mental record of unidentified pieces, and if they come across an id, need to come back and be able to find the original thread to pass on the news.
"help with id for vase" doesn't assist much in tracking it down - especially if there are 4,000 threads all with the same title.
Don't worry about it  - nearly everybody does it at first.

[pugster]

will try and improve my titles sue (i presume this is your name as its in your sig) , many thanks for the help you have provided so far with my items .
 the trouble is i dont know the correct term for say the top of the vase - i would say 'petal' but this probably is not the correct term , im getting lost looking at so much glass as i try and find my items before i ask for help, is there anywhere on this site that gives the correct names for the way items look ?
i.e would this vase have a flared petal top ?

[chopin-liszt]

My name is Sue, How do you do?
We are very used to imaginative descriptions,  but I think we might use the word lobes rather than petals. Lobes gives an idea of substantialness, while petals sound delicate.
Loads of us find we use food to describe glass for the descriptions of colour and texture... jelly, custard, etc.
An indication of what sort of glass - pressed, moulded, blown, old, new, helps a lot.
Don't worry about it - we were all new to it once. I've learned almost all I know from the good folk here, either directly on the gmb, or because we've become good friends off board and get together in reality (not often enough) to go hunting and blethering glass.

[Alsretro]

Hi - I'm wondering if your large vase is Chalet Glass of Canada - a lot of their stuff is large with lumpy bits 
Alastair

[pugster]

im starting to wonder if this is of eastern european origin , if anyone has a copy of Hi Sklo Lo Sklo: Czech Glass Design From Masterpiece to Mass-Produced they can flick thru i would be grafeful , everywhere ive looked its out of print    , may have to try local library.

[chopin-liszt]

It doesn't appear, to my uneducated eye in this sort of matter, to be Czech. It doesn't have quite the refinement of design I' have come to expect from Czech glass. I'd be looking more to Romania, or perhaps Japan.

It has "double" lobes, it's not unadventurous. 

[pugster]

ha, many thanks sue , i'll start looking at those 2 areas 

[chopin-liszt]

There is a dearth of information about Romanian glass, particularly slightly older than contemprorary, but Kane here is working away on Japanese glass. 

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/board,38.0.html

[flying free]

or Yugoslavian - sure that something has been on  recently where I wondered if Yugoslavian glass might be a contender for a number of unexplained pieces.
Seeing a picture of the base is important.  One person's idea of 'polished flat' might be another person's idea of ground flat but not totally polished shiny - or sometimes inbetween - either way, seeing the base is important.  It might also show whether the edges of the base rim are bevelled or not.  That can help id sometimes as well
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