Glass vase, Chinese?

Hi i brought this lovely vase at a local charity shop but there are no markings or signatures on base & its quite heavy .your help is much appreciated thanks

General rule of thumb with glass in charity shops. If it does not have an acid etched mark, do not buy it. So much has been produced in vast quantities all over the place, it will be very very difficult to identify.

As i have learnt

It looks Chinese to me.

Ho lee chit you maybe right its Chinese lol I'm just glad i didn't pay a lot for it 😑

philpot wrote:General rule of thumb with glass in charity shops. If it does not have an acid etched mark, do not buy it. So much has been produced in vast quantities all over the place, it will be very  very difficult to identify.

I think you'd miss out on a lot of potentially collectable glass if you stuck too rigidly to this approach, after all there is a long list of sought after glass manufacturers who never acid etched a mark on their glass, but instead relied on labels. You are right to be wary though, particularly when it comes to this kind of brightly coloured glass which is often far east in origin.

But 'sought after' glassmakers whose work is easy for a novice to identify? It usually takes a good deal of experience in an area of collecting to be able to do that.

Thanks your help is much appreciated 😉