Art glass suncatcher & candle holder - Scandinavian?

I found the large suncatcher a few months ago at an estate sale. Today, I found a matching candle holder at my fave thrift. This is thick, heavy art glass. I've actually been expecting the suncatcher to pull its hook out of the windowframe, due to the weight.

Anyway - I've searched for every variation of "snowflake", "snow flakes", and "ice", etc., that I can think of. Before I found the candle holder, I thought it also might be representing grapefruit or citrus, and I searched for those, too, a while back.

Anyone recognize? I also looked through all the Blenko catalogs, and I think we can rule them out. Thanks!

 

Maybe the disk is actually a cheese or fruit plate+suncatcher? and missing a leather hanger?

 

Thanks for the reply.

I think I found it. "Nautilus" by Hadeland of Norway. It appears to be quite a large line of glass, and may take me some time to find my exact window piece.

How they came up with that name, I'm clueless. Unless nautilus means something different in Norwegian that it does in English... I got lucky in my search, and someone had one of the pieces described as "snowflake" (which was what I was guessing).

 

Franciscan makes a line of dinnerware "Sea Sculpture" with Nautilus, Sea Urchin, Sand Dollar - that was ringing a bell, but still... Nautilus? I agree!

I can see texture... but not the symmetry of the design.



Nice finds!

 

Here is a pic of a "Chambered Nautilus" The one scoutshouse posted is a depiction of a "Paper Nautilus"

 

Here's a current eBay listing with Hadeland sticker:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stunning-Gl...d-Norway-FREE-P-P-REDUCED-FINAL-/252315830079

 

Thanks for the examples, everyone. Now that I see the chambered nautilus shell, I think I see what the designer was going for. I guess I've been conditioned after seeing the word "nautilus" referred to so many times as more of a spiral design, e.g.:



And that's not even what it really looks like, unless you slice it open.

 

Maybe they named after the tentacular arms of the nautilus.