Posted 5 years ago
kwqd
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This vase is 7" high x 1.75" diameter top x 3" diameter bottom. It is unmarked. It has a very precise circular grind to remove a pontil and a ground bottom. I believe that the color is colored glass not flashing or an applied finish. I could not scratch it off. The base is clear, though, so it may be cased glass. It is a fairly thick, heavy vase which shows little or no wear. The clear glass conducts the orange color to the top into the rim. There are quite a few small bubbles in the glass. It was a GW $.99 find which I passed by a couple of times until I ran out hope of finding any really striking pieces, which led me to taking a longer look at it. It was very dirty and smudged, which hid the vibrancy of the orange glass. It is actually a pretty nice piece of glass. No guess as to the maker.
Thanks for loving my orange vase!
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This is possibly Japanese Kevin, but lies in the land of good generic glass that was sold worldwide in the later 20th C The base is a bit of a Japanese thing with a concave pontil grind, and a good finish on the base and a proper polish and chamfered edge. They also made LOTS of orange glass.
Sorry I can’t pinpoint a maker, but my guess is Japanese.
You seem to be getting an eye for it!
Thanks for your comments Karen! The way I learned about fine art paintings was to look at a lot of art and also to buy examples online that I could not find locally. Initially, I bought some bad art. Luckily my period of buying bad art was fairly brief, but then I bought a lot of art that I liked and was of good quality. Now I have about 2000 paintings that I love and wondering how I am going to find a plot large enough to be buried in with it all. I am finally starting to sell a bit from my collection when contacted by someone who is interested in a particular work, if their reason for wanting it is compelling enough. Trying to not repeat that scenario with Japanese art glass and buy less and buy what I like most.
I hear you Kevin. I started slowly as a glass collector mainly with Scandinavian glass, moved to Czech then started discovering Japanese glass. There is so little info out there research that became overwhelming. I have made some great mistakes and big discoveries on the way. I bought a lot of pieces just for research and probably now have over 1000 pieces, which is overwhelming. I find it hard to sell but am starting to now move on some stuff. The market is not great and because I had to import lots of my glass it has been an investment I cannot recover. Oh well. Collecting and profit do not go hand in hand as you probably know .
Just be aware some of my older posts opined things I may no longer agree with!