Topic: Blue French Vase Origin?

[Aurelia49]

Good afternoon,

I have a blue French vase with air bubbles.
It is blown in a mold, but it seems the neck is from pressed glass.
High 12 cm, diameter 12,5 cm, weight 420 gramm.
Does anyone knows who made this vase?

Thanks, Egbert

[NevB]

Possibly by one of the Biot workshops, they make bubble glass. They often use a hollow tube instead of a solid pontil rod and it leaves a distinctive thin ring pontil mark, they also make the base domed. I would guess it was blown into a metal frame to create the shape and then the rim finished by hand, not pressed. A lot of their pieces are marked but not all.

[chopin-liszt]

  I do not see the expected ring for Biot in the base, and I don't think the bubbles are quite right for Biot either. There are too many small and fairly regular ones. Biot bubbles are very often elongated, of various sizes and more sparsely distributed.
It looks a bit more like either Spanish or Mexican recycled glass to me. 

[Ekimp]

I would guess it was blown into a metal frame to create the shape and then the rim finished by hand, not pressed.

There is quite a large mould seam around the neck though.

[Aurelia49]

I bought it on a Vide Grenier in Banat, France, near the border of Spain. May be Sue shows the way in the right direction.