Art noveau, deco glass vase

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Posted by foxfire
16 years ago
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Description Iridescent purple glass vase covered with an all over pulled thread design in silver (the silver appears gold depending on how the light is shown). The bottom does not appear to have a makers mark and there is a ground and polished pintel that appears as a concave oval shape area about a 1/2" long. In the picture, this is where the colored bead is ground through and clear. The vase is slightly opaque with the covered glass being a light purple glass with what appears to be full of tiny bubbles or crackles. Any information would be helpful.
Category Art Deco and Art Nouveau
Medium glass
Distinguishing marks ground pollished pontil
Condition Excellent
Size and dimensions of this item Height 11"
Date Period Told that is from early 1900s
Weight 3lb 4oz / 1480g
History Given to me - not sure of history
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Submitted by 250chief

I am just getting into art glass collecting myself, so I may be a bit vague but hopefully will give you some where to start! The Iridescent look was developed by a company called Fenton. Your piece appears to have applied patterns to the outside (is it damaged on the bottom or just rubbed off?) I get the impression that it has a Greece influence from the design, but from what I can see from the structure it looks mostly Italian in form to me. I am thinking it's a mid range export piece of art glass, and unless you can research a specific manufacturer, you are likely to be looking at the $30-$50 range. If you can attribute it to a major manufacturer you can easily double or triple the price -depending of course on who it is. Your best bet is to submit it to a glassware collecting specialty site to see if someone there can specifically identify it. Hope this helps! Garry

Gary, Thanks for the information. From the best I understand, the outside isn't a paint but molten glass threads that are pulled to produce the pattern while molten. The outside is as thick as the inner clear glass. The bottom isn't damaged or rubbed off - the patern can't be rubbed off. It's been ground down which I believe is where the pontil was attached.

Excellent additional information! So hard to tell from photos some times. I have seen applied painted versions of this so I went with the lowest denominator so as not to raise hopes. Pulled glass art glassware is indeed of greater value. The most sought after styles have rich deep base color and a design pulled into the pattern as well, preferably with multiple colored glass pulled into it but single color with interesting patterns are also prized. Iridescent background or base glass seems to be the more preferred with something like a deep color such as cobalt blue also desirable. The linear pattern broken up with a secondary design or with multiple colored glass is also desirable. Of course "named" glass such as Fenton ware etc. can be more pricey too. Yours is a simpler more common single color design. Also very nice but more common as it's easier to make (relatively speaking of course!)and some of them can even be automated and therefore mass produced. Contemporary (and I would estimate this to be no older than about 1970) glass of this nature sells between about $120 to $5000+ in retail shops. Yours would be at the lower end but still an excellent piece! I thought you might like to see an example of a higher end piece to compare to as well: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200401A19.html Hope you are enjoying it. Garry

Excellent additional information! So hard to tell from photos some times. I have seen applied painted versions of this so I went with the lowest denominator so as not to raise hopes. Pulled glass art glassware is indeed of greater value. The most sought after styles have rich deep base color and a design pulled into the pattern as well, preferably with multiple colored glass pulled into it but single color with interesting patterns are also prized. Iridescent background or base glass seems to be the more preferred with something like a deep color such as cobalt blue also desirable. The linear pattern broken up with a secondary design or with multiple colored glass is also desirable. Of course "named" glass such as Fenton ware etc. can be more pricey too. Yours is a simpler more common single color design. Also very nice but more common as it's easier to make (relatively speaking of course!)and some of them can even be automated and therefore mass produced. Contemporary (and I would estimate this to be no older than about 1970) glass of this nature sells between about $120 to $5000+ in retail shops. Yours would be at the lower end but still an excellent piece! I thought you might like to see an example of a higher end piece to compare to as well: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200401A19.html Hope you are enjoying it. Garry
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