Posted 6 years ago
IronLace
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Another recent find, this Victorian vase has the most fanciful crimped top I've seen in while (& I'm always on the lookout for fancy things).
Made from a clear, pale amber glass that glows a faint greenish - orange under UV light, it shades up to ruby at the crimped top rim, which is pulled up dramatically at the sides. There is an applied leaf - footed base in pale pink. I enjoy the extreme contrast between the slimness of the stem of the vase & the flaring top. It's a like a botanical specimen from another planet.
The vase measures 20 cm tall, 9 cm at the widest point of the crimped top rim (6 cm across at the pinched in part at the very top), & 8.6 cm across the footed base. There is a subtle, swirling ribbed pattern on the stem.
I am pretty certain that it is of Bohemian origin...& the footed base is rather like those seen on known Welz items.
Magnificent! Image two makes seem that the flamboyant rim is an application. Is that so?
Many thanks, sklo42! Yes, it seems that way, doesn't it? But no, it is all of one piece...the edge is a little deeper in colour but not an applied crest. There is a subtle opalescence leading up to the darker edge, which heightens the effect.
Thank you IronLace......tremendous skill in forming the crimped rim!
It does seem a bit tryffidy or something alien, but so beautiful. There is a dichotomy also in it's mood: a bit depressed and droopy side on, very happy and smiley from the front. Delightful any way.
Absolutely, sklo42, that is one of the many aspects of Victorian art glass that I so admire, the artistry was beyond compare!
Indeed it does, racer...it's quite an oddity, which is why it attracted my attention. I do like glass with character!
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Beautiful. I have a very different vase but the colours aren't unlike this..
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/194375-amber-uranium-three-pointed-vase
That also has opalescence at the edge but appears a bright green under UV.
Well said, MALKEY, odd is my "normal"... :-)
Looked at your vase, Vintagefran, which I like a lot, & I can see the similarities in the colouration. I did test this one under UV, as I thought I may have had a touch of uranium, but there wasn't a response. So yours, having the uranium, does count as "Rubina Verde", but mine doesn't pass the test.