THE ITEM
This subtly glamorous piece comes to you as a combination from many worlds, the ruffle neck rim and white milk glass, this is cased in a clear glass within which slices of turquoise blue glass has been incorporated, and as a finishing touch, trails of clear yellow glass has been applied all around the body.
Despite the indications of age, the colours and design is timeless and can easily adapt to a retro or modernistic room. I feel this is a sunny, playful yet elegant piece, with hints of a Summers day which has a cool light breeze and this is what it could bring to brighten up any room in need of these elements.
A BIT OF HISTORY
Unfortunately it's not been possible to track down the provenance of this piece, however, there are various qualities to the glass that can help direct us approximately.
The ruffle neck rim, the use of the white milk glass, the colour palette of the yellow and the turquoise and the inverted coarse pontil mark are all indicators of glass that was made during the victorian era.
As for the use of a somewhat primitive version of the Sommerso technique, it is relatively well known that the italian glass submersion Sommerso technique was invented until around the 1930s, however, that doesn't mean that glass artists before that time didn't experiment and innovate.
This piece appears to be one of those such pieces of creative experimentation and innovation.
CONDITION
Excellent, no chips scratches or cracks to the body of the vase, the base bears a chip to the edge of the pontil mark (A variable size type of scar or roughage left on the base by a pontil 'glassblowers' rod. ) which is completely not visible when the vase is upright, please see photos as part of the condition report.
MEASUREMENTS
c. 14" / 35 cm tall (from base to rim tip) x 6" / 15 cm wide (across body's widest point)
Unpackaged weight: c. 1.3 kg / 1,348 g
NOTES
Vase will be securely packaged and shipping will be insured.
Shipping will be combined for multiple items.
