Topic: Another beautiful Burmese piece

[sdelzer71]

Here is another piece I found when playing around with my black light. Everything but the stopper glows! Again no markings on the bottom.

[Lustrousstone]

The stopper is a marriage. That's probably Mount Washington

[sdelzer71]

I have looked for the cruets and read that there are several Italian reproductions.Here is one of the articles I read.
http://antiquesqa.blogspot.com/2012/04/is-it-real-or-repro.html

[Lustrousstone]

I think this is the important thing

But the Italian glassmakers who created reproduction pieces of Burmese did so by mixing molten yellow and pink glass together.

i.e. they're not uranium glass, yours is
True Burmese is cream uranium-based glass reheated till part of it turns pink

[sdelzer71]

Thanks Lustrousstone,

It is a beautiful piece, now if I can find out what the value could possible be? I have done a little research and saw a few going from $200 all the way up to $5000 for the more rare original ones.

[jsmeasell]

This shape is not among the extensive illustrations of Burmese in Ken Wilson's book on Mt. Washington. I will need to look in Hammond's book 'Confusing Collectibles' to be sure, but I think this is one of the Italian products from the 1950s-60s. Incidentally, mixing molten yellow and pink glass won't give this treatment effect; it takes a gold ruby glass to do this.

[jsmeasell]

This cruet (with a different stopper) is among the 'new Burmese pieces' in Hammond's 'Confusing Collectibles' (1969), p. 17.