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Blue Art Glass Bowl Vase

Discussion in 'Pottery, Glass, and Porcelain' started by kardinalisimo, Dec 31, 2015.

  1. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    Made In China/TJMaxx or something else?
    What is the technique called?
    Thanks
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  2. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Petrie dish decoration?

    And speaking of that word I never heard before, on photo #2, note face of elderly lion munching a daisy, slightly to the left of middle! LOL!
     
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  3. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    It's a bit like fat lava. Interesting.
     
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  4. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Well! That's two new words today!
     
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  5. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    OK, I usually see images in all sorts of things but dern if I see your lion LOL!
     
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  6. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    It sure does resemble the fat lava pottery with the burst-bubble, crater glaze.
    I searched for awhile, with all kinds of volcanic keywords and found no art glass quite like yours.
    The maker cared enough to polish the pontil mark off the bottom. I wish they would have cared enough to sign it, too.:(
     
  7. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    SiS - hint, he looks cross.
     
  8. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

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  9. kardinalisimo

    kardinalisimo Well-Known Member

    Maybe if someone figure the production technique it will be easier to find something similar online.
    The basic color is dark blue. Then you have an applied light blue that is somewhat melted. Wonder how was this done? Like maybe some kind of stencil was used after the glass was heated? Or that bursting happened in a kiln, but how was it controlled to get the desired design?
     
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  10. TheOLdGuy

    TheOLdGuy Well-Known Member

    S I S
    I'm with you.
    Should we be concerned?
     
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  11. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    OK. In picture #2, right in the middle, there is an arc of 5 blue dots - almost, but not quite equidistant. It starts at 9 o'clock, and stops at about 1 o'clock. Over top of the third dot, and slightly left of it, is the cross lion.

    roar?
     
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  12. desperate_fun

    desperate_fun Irregular Member

    My knowledge of glass is pretty limited. I believe the treatment is called "Frit pick up."

    If you look closely at the bottom you can see what appears to be individual pieces of glass (Frit) Obviously this would be a very heavy application.

    @Cherryhill might be able to confirm my thoughts (Tom is the one who pointed out this technique to me on another thread)
     
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  13. TheOLdGuy

    TheOLdGuy Well-Known Member

    Sorry, Silver. And I only had a bit of wine last night.
    Maybe that's my problem?????

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  14. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

    hmmm... here is what I see ( hey this is like playing cloud pictures) a horse head and a puffy purse.

    bowl cloud pictures.jpg
     
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  15. say_it_slowly

    say_it_slowly The worst prison is a closed heart

  16. Cherryhill

    Cherryhill Well-Known Member

    It's interesting to see on New Year's Day the imagination of some of our folks, seeing resemblances to other things.

    I don't feel this is frit pick up, these are voids in the opaque blue over layer. I don't know how this was done, but it looks like there was something (small granules) applied to the clear, dark blue layer before it was cased over with the opaque layer, then these granules caused bubbles to break, leaving the voids. This is pure speculation, I 'm not a glass worker, don't know how it was done.

    I might take this home with me, it's kinda attractive.
     
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  17. TheOLdGuy

    TheOLdGuy Well-Known Member

    OK, OK! I give up.

    But still wishing all super New Year.
     
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  18. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    I finally did find some glass with this technique and it's all Tiffany Glass called Lava Favrile or Cypriot/Cyrpriote.
    And found one description calling it pock marked, so, hopefully that will be another good key word.

    Kardi, is the glass thick and heavy? Or is it thin and light weight? Can you post a pic looking down at the inside that shows the thickness at the top of the opening?

    Google image search Cypriote glass

    I think @desperate_fun is correct about the 'frit pick up' technique. Here is how it was described on an old Antiques Roadshow episode:
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    Tiffany Red Cypriote Glass Vase, ca. 1926
    Appraised Value: $25,000
    Appraised on: June 28, 2008
    Appraised in: Dallas, Texas
    Antiques Roadshow Originally Aired: February 2, 2009
    APPRAISER: "Well, I'm glad you kept it safe because it is a piece of Tiffany glass. And this type of glass is called Cypriote glass. Cypriote is c-y-p-r-i-o-t-e. And Cypriote glass is the type of glass that is characterized by the irregular, pitted and textured surface that you see on this vase. What it's meant to replicate is how the excavated Roman glass looked when it was discovered. Usually what happened over the time that it was buried, the chemicals in the minerals and moisture in the dirt or the sand would react with the surface of glass, and it would create something that looked just like this. And according to Jimmy Stewart-- not the actor but one of the chief people who worked in the glassblowing department at Tiffany-- he described how this was made. And what they did is they took a hot gather of glass and they rolled it on a marver. A marver was an iron or marble table, and on the table were crushed-up bits of glass, the same kind of glass, and they rolled it in the glass and then they reheated it and they blew it into its final form. And sometimes they would make it into an iridescent surface. This one isn't so much iridized, but the earlier ones were done that way. And it sounds like a fairly complex technique, but they were able to make this in the 1890s. However, this is a later piece. This piece actually dates from the 1920s."
     
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  19. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

    Oh! I also meant to tell you to look very carefully on your vase for a lightly etched/engraved code number. I was looking at one of the Tiffany vases with a partial paper label and a very faint hand etched code number. Thought I'd saved the link, but guess I didn't, so will have to hunt it up again.

    And I will see if I can find other makers.
     
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  20. lauragarnet

    lauragarnet Well-Known Member

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