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Posted 3 years ago
Dave_Sandra
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We succumbed to impulse and bought this pair of pretty vases this evening but who made swirl spatter glass in this style
They stand 7 1/2 inches high and have a dimpled un polished base
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Look at Welz production, Bohemian
The shape is Welz, and is seen in 3 or 4 other Welz decors.
These are apparently formed from strands of colour on an amber yellow core with a clear casing and as WOW22 and welzebub have said are typical of Franz Welz
[Thank you folks]
What attracted us were that they were twisted to produce the swirl which we had not seen in the spatter glass we have come across previously.
The question that cannot be answered is how did these hundred year old examples end up sandwiched between Aberdeenshire and Angus in rural Kincardineshire, also known as "The Mearns" and made famous by Grassic Gibbons ?
Beautiful welz!!
scott
Maybe an example of Welz cadmium spatter? If you have a black light, test & see if it glows bright orange, which indicates cadmium content. The decor of your vase is somewhat like that seen on this Welz boot ornament -
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/296632-victorian-welz-cased-spatter-glass-boot
It is a little darker, possibly photography, and also possibly the amount of colored shards used to create it, but it is definitely Cadmium Spatter.
http://www.kralik-glass.com/welzcadmiumspatterarray.html
Thank you for this information I have tried to take some shots in subdued lighting with one of the vases illuminated with a UV tube torch and believe I do have a reaction I will swap out a picture for any further comment
Yes, looks like an orange glow there, & thanks for adding the new photos!
As to how did your Welz vases get to Kincardineshire...... The Welz company exported ship loads of glass to Great Britain (as it then was) in the Victorian/Edwardian era. Less so after WW I. A surprising amount of it has survived.
So much of it that about 30 years ago, much of it was grouped into the “cottage glass” category and was thought to have been made in the UK.
scott