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Scandinavian Style Blue Cased Hooped Glass Romanian or Japanese Vase

  • Product Number: WS13186
Product Number: WS13186

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Description

A beautiful Scandinavian style 1970's blue 'hooped' cased glass vase. Manufacturer unknown, but most likely made in Romania or Japan. I recently had the same straight sided vase in green, and without the clear casing, which had a "Made in Roumania" label [click here]. "Roumania" was the English spelling for Romania up until around 1975. However, I also recently had a very similar design, the exact same colour and size, but with tapering sides (see next to last picture). The same design was posted in a Facebook group, that had a label that reads "Napcoware Import - Japan" [click here]. It seems maybe one factory copied another, or purchased the moulds from the other. Possibly the cased versions are Japanese, and the uncased versions Romanian, but both the cased and uncased straight sided vases have identical dimensions and shape. To complicate matters further, the cased version of this design is shown in a Leftons 1970 import catalogue, listed as Italian (see final picture), however no examples have been found with Italian labels so far. It may be that Leftons described it as Italian to make it more appealing to buyers at the time. Hopefully, time will tell!

Size

Measures approx 10 inches tall by 2.75 inches in diameter at widest point.

Condition

Excellent condition, no chips or cracks, just a couple of small, faint surface scratches.

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