My Favourite Mystery glass vase.. Any Ideas ??

Hi to all you Glassy folks.
I have had this vase in my modest collection for a few years now and have grown to love it but have never worked out
where or who? Any advice or info greatly appreciated.

Its a nice compact ovoid form vase in a smokey quartz type colour standing about 14cm tall. The surface has frosted or sand blasted matt finish which has been wheel cut all over to produce
this pattern. Ytne base has a large polished pontil . I have no idea but looks like it may be a whitefriars piece of studio work ??

Many thanks for your thoughts , scott

No Takers aty all ????

Yes bump, someone will have an opinion I'm sure.

xx

well I can't help but I think it is absolutely gorgeous!
That colour is fab, the whole thing is fab
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Many thanks i really love this one too.
How many other Glass factories other than whitefriars/powell that did this very large round base grinding/polishing.
Im guessing this piece to be C 1920s-early 40s possibly by style and amount of base wear alone.

The large majority of glassworks of any quality finished their bases with a polished pontil mark - it's one of those internet/telly myths that only Whitefriars did it.

I'm quite tempted to think that it's Czech, although the few Czech pieces I've had have all had flat polished bases...

Hi Nic, yes i did realise that many glass works ground the pontil marks out but thought this one was larger than usual and was thinking maybe an indication as to which works. I also have several Czeck pices which do tend to be blown onto moulds and cut from the pontil at the top rather than bottom i think.

Ah, I get you.

I'm not sure it can be identified by base alone, unfortunately.

Hi again, i have just perhaps stumbled apon an image in an old collectable book that lead me to serch about and found some very similar vases of like form. Im not saying its an ID but a possible lead to follow.
If anyone can disprove or at least tell me im barking up the wrong tree i would much appreciate it.
WMF WALTER DEXEL Ikora range of vases are as close as i have seen so far !!

What do you think any chance ?????

http://www.glaskilian.de/WMF-IKORA-Glas-Vase-Entwurf.144+B6YmFja1BJRD0xNDQmcHJvZHVjdElEPTEzOTMwJnBpZF9wcm9kdWN0PTE0NCZkZXRhaWw9.0.html

VeryGreennkeen wrote:Hi again, i have just perhaps stumbled apon an image in an old collectable book that lead me to serch about and found some very similar vases of like form. Im not saying its an ID but a possible lead to follow.
If anyone can disprove or at least tell me im barking up the wrong tree i would much appreciate it.
WMF WALTER DEXEL Ikora range of vases are as close as i have seen so far !!

What do you think any chance ?????

Hi!

Just my personal opinion, i am not really a specialist :-)
I would say "no" to Ikora and "no" to Walter Dexel and "may be" to WMF.

Regards
Micha

I'm pretty sure it's not, but Caithness did a range called rough cut. I've had a quick look but can't find similar however you may want to investigate further. The base doesn't look right for that though, but still may be worth a look.
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HHmmm still no joy with this one , but i will keep looking i guess, thanks to all for your thoughts