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    Posted 2 years ago

    IronLace
    (929 items)

    This op shop find took me back on a nostalgia trip of sorts...to the days when I regularly picked up bargain art glass finds. One of my very first (when I was still a teenager - OMG!) was a small vase not dissimilar to this one I found yesterday. It was purchased in an op shop in Sydney I've frequented for three decades, with a particularly rich seam of finds happening around 2016 - 2017, just before I moved away from Sydney. It was very cheap, sitting on what I call the "crap shelves" among odd coffee mugs & the like. I always enjoy finding Victorian glass in that context - unloved, misunderstood, & not selected for the display cabinet of officially designated"good things" at the front of the shop.
    This is a small, squat vase made from two layers of cased glass, white over a bright pink interior. It measures 12 cm tall, 8 cm across the double crimped top rim, & 5 cm across the base, which bears a rough pontil mark.
    Some of this type of glass contains uranium in the white layer, but this example doesn't.
    It features some extremely worn painted decoration of a tall bird (a stork or crane, perhaps?) & flowers. I think I'm going to display it with the plain side showing, though!
    Bohemian origin, late 19th century.

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