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    Posted 12 years ago

    b612
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    strange footless cut glass thing, for drinking or flowers?
    22 cm, 8 3/4 inch high, 12cm or 4 3/4 inch max diameter. It has an (almost) identical twin.
    I bought it in the Netherlands, but the seller did not know what it is.
    The glass is neither bright like full lead crystal nor greenish like really old glass.

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    1. inky inky, 12 years ago
      Hi!... it would have been part of an 'epergne' centre table piece, or a single that would have sat in the centre of a bowl, and they were for displaying flowers, if you google glass epergne, you will see what I mean, and probably get a better explanation.....:-)
    2. b612, 12 years ago
      hmmm when one drinks, one tends to hold a glass - but i but I had to sack the flower-vase-holder-girl a while back.
      but seriously, i hold it in the stand I made for it, and I drink from it. Many drinking vessels - viking horns, kwak glasses... can not stand up!
    3. chinablue chinablue, 12 years ago
      inky, it does look like one of those! My first thought was an old auto or funeral hearse/carriage vase. b612, you're right. Like the 'bottoms up' shot glasses with the nude draped across them. You held it or turned it upside down. I love the floral etching on this!
    4. b612, 12 years ago
      yup, whatever it is it is a thing of beauty, and a result of skill and dilligence! I was rather pleased with the photos too..

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