Who makes these?

[Doug Sheridan]

Someone came in with these and wanted to know where they were made. Any ideas?

[Doug Sheridan]

ok, no guesses?

Now how was it made?

[Dan Buchacher]

sandblasted graal blanks? The white color is likely pretty stiff, so is a smart choice if sandblasting out windows in the blank is the way they did this

[Scott Novota]

I was just thinking that they wrapped it really thick with a opal striking color and used a punch to make whole then spun it out like a floppy bowl.

Then again, I have no idea...I take it all back.


Scott.
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[Mike Hanson]

It looks like they fused a plate with a sectioned rim, picked it up and shaped it into a vessel. Just a guess ?

[Jon Myers]

the base part looks like it was done with hot color. the top could be sheet glass with holes drilled in it, rolled up while puntied? cool whodunit... that would be a tough production piece.

[Doug Sheridan]

These were found in the basement of a friend's deceased Mother's house. No mark whatsoever, and no punty mark either, but has a kick at the bottom that the edge has been ground. Collar punty? I can't imagine spinning out that 16" platter with those holes in the rim. The holes are squarish.

[Tom Fuhrman]

probably Czech/Bohemian or French.
I've seen Petr Novotny make some vases that were made up of a lattice design similiar to this. I saw him demo one of these pieces at the St. Louis GAS conference.
This one used a pressed or blown plate as the center and then a glass trail was wrapped around it , then pulled out into loops, then as it was heated on a glazier, the loops were formed into rectangular shapes. It took a little bit of specialized machinery that only the more creative/progressive factories had.
some of the old glazier machines could do amazing stuff when they had the right operator.
that's my ideas on it.

[Terry Crider]

Tom's right on the press mold, I doubt if this piece ever needed the glazier.
Many years ago, Gabbert had a Fenton cullett that O.J. called a
"striking" Amber. It came out of the tank as a dark amber, and depending on
how much it was re-heated, it would strike more and more white.
It would have matched this color perfectly.
If it was Fenton, I would think there would be a logo on it, sometimes, they
put the logo on the inside of the bottom.
When it came out of the mold, the sides would have been angled, but straight
and the open lattice work at the top would have been uniform.
The collar at the base would have went into a mechanical "snap" and re-heated in the glory hole to flare however much they wanted to.
Depending upon how much they re-heated it, they somewhat lost control of
just how the open lattice work would turn out.
Terry

[Doug Sheridan]

I think Fenton is the best guess, thanks to all.

[Doug Sheridan]

New info on the glass:

These are not Fenton items.
>
> These were made by the Duncan Miller Glass Co. of
> Washington, PA, and were called "Murano" in company
> advertising. If you search the internet for "Duncan Miller
> Murano" you will find lots of examples to see.
>
> James Measell, Historian

So says James.

[Franklin Sankar]

Do some of these strange glasses have a fixed COE or does it vary as the color changes?
Franklin