Posted 7 days ago
sklo42
(897 items)
This small vase has a lot going on. A satin finish with a colour fade effect and five frosted leafy feet. Not to mention the most crimped of crimped rims I've ever seen.
Height 13 cm./5 inches
Small Victorian Diamond Quilted Vase, | ||
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Mother of Pearl -aka- MOP air trap, satin glass was first made in the 1850s in England and in Massachusetts. It was a special type of mold-blown satin glass with air bubbles in the glass, giving it a pearlized color. Exposure to acid vapor gave the piece its satin finish. It has been reproduced. Mother-of-pearl shell objects are listed under Pearl.
More info about original Victorian pieces and modern versions made at Murano, Italy in the 1970s.
https://www.realorrepro.com/article/Mother-of-Pearl
Forgot to add; Your vase looks like is may have been made at one of the Stourbridge, England glassworks given the applied satin glass feet. None of the modern Italian versions of this type of glass are done like that, plus the busy tight crimping rims are common on English Art Glass.
Super little vase, Peggy!
The apricot shade is very appealing & not that often seen, & the tight, upright crimp is also something different from the mote typical double crimps or pie crust style ones...
Mother of pearl is actually a creamy white glass with an iridescent finish. This is not 'airtrap' since there are no 'bubbles' as the surface is flat. "Looks like it MAY have been made at ? I'm afraid that is meaningless and just further spreads misinformation. It was posted as Victorian as that is reasonably certain. I have no wish to be rude but conjecture is counter productive and needs refuting. I shall delete your comments in due course.
Marin, that's what I thought. Not my usual thing but I just liked it!
Bravo sklo42, I had a similar 'expert' testimony from this person & had to delete as evidence unfounded. And BTW, your vase is beautiful & I'm sure YOU are more expert about it!
(Feel free to delete this comment as well, by now you know I am non confrontational :)
Newfld, I'm sorry you had a similar problem with ill founded comments from John2Nhoj. I know that you are expert in your field and are not confrontational.
The problem with people who believe the first thing they read, not knowing whether it's correct or not, is that they spread misinformation which never gets fully wiped out. I'll leave this a while then get rid of the entire post.
Seconded! :-)
Thank you sklo42 & Marin you're very kind, and it's good to be aware of these dismissive 'experts'
Mother of Pearl satin glass.
https://kovels.com/antique-collectibles-prices/mother-of-pearl-glass
sklo42, The name Mother of Pearl in this case has nothing to do with nacre or iridescent glass. The air trap is in the diamond design, (between the two layers of glass. A spot mold is used to press a raised diamond design into the white glass gather, then that glass gather is dipped into another color of glass, and it's then blown into the vase\item shape.
This info has nothing to do with my just reading something somewhere. I've been a collector of glass and glassmaking info for over 50 years. I have visited many glass factories over the years and watched glassmaker make all sorts of different types of glass items using many different techniques.
John2Nhoj,
Mother of pearl, used in conjunction with all colours of the rainbow, is simply a misnomer of long standing. If you wish to repeat this error that's up to you. Further more there can be no 'air trap' in a flat surface. I can feel both sides of the glass using thumb and two fingers and there are no undulations. This is 'Diamond Quilting' but not 'Air Trap'. Finally treating an auction catalogue as a completely reliable source of information will disappoint. What you believe is not my concern until you put it on my post.