Posted 9 years ago
IanBrighton
(573 items)
We must apologise in the UK for receding light levels - this makes my photos more difficult than usual.
This is a pinched tango jug with cobalt rim and handle.
It stands 22.5cm to rim or 27cm to top of handle.
As everyone knows here on CW I'm no expert on glass ...so I have a question.
How can you tell the difference between the contemporary and the vintage tango glass?
I see a lot of beautiful Tango Glass here on CW.
When I'm out hunting for pottery I find some amazing glass. Just this past weekend there was a bowl the color of this piece with a colored rim like this.....it had a pontil on the bottom but no other mark.
Price was 5.oo but I didn't purchase.
you need a Tango buddy. I have several. And you tend to gravitate to the good ones. I am fortunate. I was looking, he found me...then I started to read, read and read again and if you can afford it buy heaps of books with detail pictures and then research...and read what is written in here and buy and read, read, read again and then but heaps of books...am I becomming clear?
You cannot become a Master over night but you can meet Masters online...and what a better place...I really only touch 1900 plus Tango through to end of the 20's and then I ventured out to before on Czech glass, applied etc etc etc...
Sadly when I objected to some major nastiness in here I deleted most of my posts. Even sadder was the comments I got from the Masters about my items.
Advice. Buy what you like. Buy what looks good. Buy the good colour with the beautiful applied cobalts and amerthysts...save your pennies and get some stand out pieces. Not everything Loetz is great in Tango. And not everything has a maker whose first name is Michael. If he made 1 millionth of the stuff attributed to him, he still be doing it now...lol....
Don't get ripped off, try and pay good prices. Most people on ebay have no idea what they are selling so always offer lower.
Look too for unusual colours pinks, greens, whites...but remember that the true Tando colours were red/orange/yellow and green with black....
Enjoy....
Good comments - I have been drawn to something recently only to find a "Made in Mexico" label on it. Care and developing an eye are what I would add to Ann's comment.
yes, Ian and as I say to all you boys in here, remembering that I have an "e" on the end of Anne goes a long way...lol
Haha. My bad!
Anne thank you for the reply...
I need to start carrying a flashlight in my purse because I thought the rim on the one I spoke of above was black....but now I know it could have been amethyst or cobalt.