Posted 2 years ago
IronLace
(915 items)
Here is the second of the two items I bought last Saturday - a wonderful Victorian spatter glass vase.
It is made from three layers of cased glass, clear over a spatter of pink, yellow, beige, & mica spangle inclusion, with a white interior.
The vase measures 11,5 cm tall, 6.3 cm across the top rim, & 6.5 cm across the base, which does not have a pontil mark.
The spatter is a nice combination of colours which I haven't seen before. I'm not sure of the origin, as the shape is fairly simple & not suggestive of any particular maker.
I think most likely Bohemian but unknown maker.
Very sparkly!
Goodness, that's BEAUTIFUL!!!!
Many thanks, Bernard!
Thanks also, Scott!
Vasa Murrhina Art Glass Company of Sandwich, Massachusetts, about 1884. The glassware was transparent and was embedded with small pieces of colored glass and metallic flakes. The mica flakes were coated with silver, gold, copper, or nickel. Some of the pieces were cased. The Fenton Art Glass Co. made a line of items they named Vasa Murrhina, but theirs lacks the metal flakes.