Topic: Pressed glass ashtray? help please.

[brucebanner]

Any thoughts on this one, I have looked everywhere.

5 1/2 inches across the rim and 2 inches in height.

Regards Chris.

[Ivo]

Piano foot?

[nick.a]

Hi Chris,
It bears some similarities to this; http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-MID-CENTURY-GREEN-AVOCADO-YELLOW-GOLD-MINIATURE-VASE-ALTAGLASS-MINT-/271226300721 , which I've also seen described as an ashtray/ trinket dish.
Regards
Nick

[Lustrousstone]

Not a piano foot and not pressed I suspect, though a mould has been used

[brucebanner]

The dish in the link looks almost the same apart from the colour, thanks for your help all.

[Ekimp]

There is a larger version of this here: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,67193.msg374654.html#msg374654 (which is mine). It is blue and has more lobes but the same textured base.

In this thread: https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,35604.msg193217.html#msg193217 there is another one of a similar size to yours but with a ground base and circle in the bottom inside. That one, matches a labeled Altaglass (Canada) example. Earlier in that thread, Ivo mentions Empoli or Altare or from Spain as possible makers for this sort of thing.

I think Chalet glass Canada is a good possibility as some of their baskets and bowls look very similar, with similar textured bases, but tend to have pinched tabs protruding around the edge. Or possibly a version from Altaglass, unfortunately the link from nick.a is dead so can’t see how close that one was.