Great Grandmother's Vase (can't identify mark)

My mother recently came into possession of this vase which was my great grandmothers. My grandmother tells me she remembers her father taking her mother to an antique store on long Island (NY) in the late 1940s-early 50s and she picked this out. I can't find anything on the marking online. Thanks in Advance for any help. (Depending on how you look at it it looks like the number 4)




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Just guessing as the glare makes it hard to determine if I am seeing correctly.

On the bottom, is that a polished pontil? If so, then likely European. At first I thought Bohemia, then looked again and now thinking it might be later, 1940s-50s. If 40s-50s, then that probably is not a polished pontil. Hard to tell from your picture.
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The #4 will be a decorator's mark. Maybe for the pattern, don't know.

 

Frankly the detail is too blurry to judge the quality of the decoration or figures out a company's style. I agree the number is either the decorator(most likely) or the design. It would only have me4aning within the contest of the decorating company which probably, my opinion, was not the maker of the glass. The vase is a nice popular shape made by several companies.

 

I believe the number 4 isn't marked on the glass - the 4 is smooth glass when all the glass around it seems fogged

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The 4 is paint on the glass.

 

Charleton Rose decoration?

 

Possibly but the detail is too blurry to tell.

 

I'll try and get better quality images. All I know is my great grandmother got it at an antique shop in the late 1940s or early 50s... most likely late 1940s.

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The circles on the vase are also glass. The vase is mostly frosted glass and all those circles are smooth glass (kind of look like magnifying glasses in person)

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I found this on ebay... slightly different vase with the exact same painting and design. They claim 1930/40 Fenton

http://m.ebay.com/itm/281638345665?_mwBanner=1

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It may be BUT I did not see either of those vase shapes or the decoration in Palmer's book on the Charleton Line. Stickers can and are moved from item to item and not always accurately. Other decorators used the rose bud motif and ebay ids need to be confirmed.

 

It may very well be Charleton but it seems highly doubtful it's Fenton. Fenton did not do much blown glass and did not cut circles as a decoration. Also it's not a Fenton shape that I recognize. Much more likely to be a generic Bohemian blank that Charleton imported and decorated.
Don

 

When you photograph your item, try to put it in front of a plain background. The problem here is the camera doesn't know whether to focus on the object, or the distance.