Posted 9 years ago
racer4four
(586 items)
When I first saw the photo for this vase for sale I was intrigued but thought maybe it was a product of a Scandinavian or German glass house.
Imagine my surprise when I recognised that little gold sticker!
I have never seen anything even remotely like this from Iwata, and it is unusual for Japanese glass generally.
This vase is sizeable, at 30cm (12in) and 4 kilos or so.
Made from clear glass (duh!) and moulded from the top with a cut and polished rim.
The front and back are identical and it is symmetric- the swirls on the right go clockwise, the swirls on the left anti-clockwise. Interestingly the side walls are smooth except for the narrowest part of the neck which has a deliberately rippled finish.
It meant something to someone as they took a long time designing it and making the mould. I don't know if this would have been by Iwata Fujinana or Iwata Kuri; they were both working when I think this is from, 1960s.
Pretty interesting all together this one!
(yes I know it looks like a pig-bear or cousin to Alf the alien)
Actually, Karen, it looks like a girlfriend of mine back in h.s.! [;>))))))
I mean from her neck down!!! [;>))))))
Haha Blade - that's a much nicer image than my thoughts...I'll go with that!
Lovely to hear from the funkmaster himself - thanks Thomas!
Gee -- That is different for them. I would have never expected that label on it. Did you find others like this? I hope the label and vase is not a marriage of sorts -- as one never knows sometimes.
This is just really Neat and Cool ~ with FUNK !!
Rose I don't think it's a label swap piece. It came from Japan and had been in storage a long time, and I don't see Scandi glass before around 1990 available over there.
It is very Japanese in many ways: the scale, techniques and finish.
Interesting for sure! Thanks for the comments.....I always appreciate your take.
Your Welcome.....It never hurts to question, as I *question myself* all the time...LOL. You know better as you have held, touched, see some much more Japanese Glass than me.
~ YOU TEACHER ...... Me Student !!!
~ It was just such a different style to me for Japanese Glass , it just made me wonder. As collectors, we should never close our eyes or our minds.....AND never stop asking questions. It is all live and learn.....
;-))))
I agree totally Rose. It was a good question ...they are the ones that make us think!
LOL....and the words here are so true too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGblsNXkJog
For sure!! Have a great day, or rather sleeeeeppp.
Ummm...is it night there? Day here....LOL
Huh. Well it's certainly interesting. Japanese Scandinavian! :)
Hey Racer i am going to a old former anzac traing camp from the fifties i just heard about the camp .The area is 75 km from here. A river and area of land are called this in honor of them. Hope i can find somthing. Only a couple fur trappers live there in the winter. We will be hunting and fishing too but i plan on finding this old camp.
Interesting Caper. I have heard of the town Anzac in BC (I think an Australian who lived there post WW1 named it) but don’t know of any training camps.
Let us all at CW know what you find! Have fun.
Really oh no the person that told me must of been mistaken about he camps origins. There is no community there now hmm I did Google some and not a, well hope to find the camp. There is also an Anzac in Alberta. BTW the place I work at was in the 90,s part owned by Fletcher Challenge. Are they still big there.
Fletcher Challenge are a New Zealand company - still BIG.
Not in Australia ?
They did have holdings here, particularly paper mills in Tasmania. Their building arm did major works here too. The company seemed to have a real diverse group of operations.
The company Fletcher Challenge was broken up around 2000 and although what is now Fletcher Building is primarily owned by New Zealanders and Australians I think the paper mill arm is now owned by Norwegians and is part of NorskeCanada. Is that the operational area you were in?
Not any more the Chinese bought it.
Oh...but of course...
That industry especially the paper were hit hard nobody buys News papers any more. The town I live in started with the hydroelectric dam and man made lake 1967. The Anzac was named before this town and few here know about it and its meaning. Hope it was what I'd heard but a well that's hunting.
Let me know how it goes and any history you find! Sounds interesting.
Will do :)
Wow, it looks just like some Scandanavian Art Glass!
Sure does, but BIG!!