Topic: Studio art glass Turquoise iridescent vase help please

[brucebanner]

Hello there can anyone help me with this beautiful piece of glass, it has a lot of age wear to the base and the design on the outer  surface of the glass is thin with a very thick clear interior, it's 4 1/4 inches in height and about the same in width, regards Chris.

[Greg.]

I think this might be Isle of Wight Studio Glass from the Woodland range, around 1995.

[glassobsessed]

Quite a hard to find range from Isle of Wight Studio Glass, Woodland, made in two colours this being Silver Birch, Woodland made in 1995 and 1996 only.

John

[chopin-liszt]

But there are some one-off/trial jugs around in different colour combinations, but still Woodland.
I have one, and I know somebody who has 2 others.

A scarce pattern to find, I think it didn't last because the amount of work required didn't make it economically viable.
(Although IoWSG did deliberately make ranges fairly limited, in order to appeal to a collector's market. A strategy which had proved to work well for Moorcroft.)

[brucebanner]

Thanks guys i wonder why it's not signed? lovely looking piece of glass, just goes to show the wear to the base can make dates way out, regards Chris.

[chopin-liszt]

It would have had a label and been bought (from new) with an official presentation box and card. 

It is a lot of age-related wear for something just 10 or so years old!

[brucebanner]

There is one thing that's beginning to make part sense with this age wear, the more unusual and colourful a piece of glass the more it gets picked up looked at and put down, well at least it's a theory i'm working on. 

[chopin-liszt]

Alternatively, something can be treasured for donkey's years, shut away in a cabinet and have no age-related wear at all, despite being 200+ years old. 

I have discovered that whan a piece only sits on a tiny edge of the base, the age-related wear can be too fine to see, but you can still feel it with the tip of your fingernail.

[brucebanner]

That's true,I  found a candlestick yesterday looks brand new but i think it's 1830's no age wear at all, sitting on it's very tips, my cut glass collection is getting out of hand, i love the quality the workmanship and just how cheap it is to get something thats 200 years old for 20p

[chopin-liszt]

We used to have a lovely lady here who was in the habit of licking and/or biting glass as part of her method in id-ing things. Even that does have its place. 

You do have to be careful not to bite hard.