Topic: Green cut vase

[Ivo]

If cutting and polishing is your business you do not leave the bottom unfinished, so yes.

[flying free]

Hi Ivo
thanks I understand.  I was just more thinking about whether it might have been blown from the top and then cut (maybe then tending to think not English) rather than the other way where S&W have polished pontil marks and firepolished rims I think (in the book on the pieces that don't have notched rims but are otherwise cut to clear, they seem to have firepolished rims as far as I can see).

Nonetheless, it appears the owners vase has a cut and polished and bevelled rim. So although the pattern is very similar to an S&W pattern perhaps thoughts would lean towards another maker rather than an English maker, i.e.Ajka as a you said.

m

[Lustrousstone]

I'm not sure that train of thought could apply here, as the rim is cut to shape and would be nigh on impossible to fire polish wherever it was made

[flying free]

yes you're right

I did have a fairly good look at the books and couldn't see a similar shaped rim on anything under S & W though (even clear glass items from different periods).
But that pattern is very similar if slightly 're-designed'.
m