Posted 5 months ago
sklo42
(916 items)
I had actually come across images of this vase in the past. I love zippers but deemed them rare and had never done a search for them until about ten days ago. I thought it looked Victorian and delicate, in part due to the handles. In reality it's thick walled, large and very heavy. The base is of the same glass as the handles but, coloured by the zipper pattern above, it looks brown. Also the vase itself looks ribbed but actually isn't, Or not highly ribbed in the way some Welz pieces are.
Height 23cm./9inches approx. Weight 1207g. 2lb 10.5oz.
Many thanks for these photos. I too have been looking but they have eluded me … instead I have only found a Stevens & Williams bowl. At any rate I had never seen a base shot …. surprised was I when I saw your pix and the weight comment too !!!
Base pic was a revelation to me too. Thanks.
vetraio, A Stevens and Williams zipper bowl is hardly to be sniffed at! It really is an education/puzzle to have something like this in your hands. Bearing in mind that I have no interest in/knowledge of glass technology the solid colour base looks, to me, to be applied. On the other hand I don't remember ever seeing another base like this on a Welz piece. Perhaps the way the the zipper pattern is created dictates how the foot is formed. Certainly the zipper pattern seems to be in one flow between base and rim.
Wow22, Perhaps someone here will know, and enlighten us all...........
Peggy, this is absolutely amazing!
I have Welz Zipper on my to do list but have never seen a piece for sale anywhere.
The base is really interesting, am I right in thinking it's a disc like applied clear foot? (at least that's how it looks to me)
It never ceases to surprise me about how glass items can look one way in a photo & then be very different in person. The size/weight situation is often a shock on unpacking...this vase looks like it would have a big girth if you got a tape measure around it!
Marin, I'm pleased too. The girth is approx. 93 cm. I think the clear base is applied but that is new to me. But then the zipper pattern is on the base so how else could they create a foot? Really I'm just pleased and amazed I found it, ebay as usual.
I do appreciate the folk who click like or love on my posts, even if I do not say so very often. I'm posting less because I'm buying less. I buy less because I rarely see stuff that I haven't got already, in either shape or décor. Plus postage from overseas has become exorbitant not to mention that all suitable horizontal surfaces at home are taken already. Happy hunting to all collectors who still have space!