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Author Topic: Vase or drinking glass?  (Read 710 times)

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Offline LouisXIV

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Vase or drinking glass?
« on: May 11, 2015, 08:02:21 AM »
Hello again! ;)

I got a discussion with my wife about a glass I bought a couple of weeks ago.
I thought it is a drinking glass, be she says it's a vase.

She's 18 cm high (the vase not my wife), 5,8 cm width and weighs 410 gram.

If anybody knows who made her, that would also be nice, off course.

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Vase or drinking glass?
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2015, 09:01:11 AM »
I think the wife is right. The bottom is extra heavy for stability, not really pleasant for drinking. And the rim is polished flat. For a drinking glass you would expect a rounded rim - either tooled or fire polished. With a flat rim you risk pouring the drink all over yourself which makes you sticky and smelly.
It looks to me as if the vase could have been made by Krosno in Poland. As always, no guarantee.

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Re: Vase or drinking glass?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2015, 04:04:31 AM »
I would say vase also.

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Re: Vase or drinking glass?
« Reply #3 on: May 12, 2015, 07:02:07 AM »
The rim is rounded.
The only Krosno vases or drinking glasses I find are with some kind of bubble in the bottom, but no one similar to this one, ore maybe a bit like this one...
But drinking glass or not, I give her a place next to my other vases; I got enough drinking glasses, but never enough vases. ;)

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Re: Vase or drinking glass?
« Reply #4 on: May 12, 2015, 09:08:16 PM »
I found this:

Ricke, van Loyen: Gralglas. Deutsches Design 1930-1981, p. 93 nr. 169: Vasen F333 und 496, Las Palmas, Entwurf Roland Pösch, gralglas atelier, 1965 und 1969,

The vase in the middle has a very similar proportion and colour.

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Re: Vase or drinking glass?
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2015, 07:13:01 AM »
Fantastic Jumper! You are the best, it's indeed exactly the same vase.

Thank you very much!


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