Featured Iddy Biddy silvered vase query

Anyone seen one of these tiny silvered glass vases?
At only 11cm high and weighing 145gms it's a tiny little thing.
No marks but the pontil is a little rough. Not sure if I can
call it “vintage” yet. Any ideas??
Cheers
Stephen

 

Adorable. That goes right on my Christmas tree. (And I don't care when it was made!)

 

It is certainly charming. The general shape is Art Nouveau in style. But there were many Art Nouveau revivals. Maybe @Bronwen recognizes the girl in the Rococo cartouche.
The shape reminds me of Dutch Rozenburg (1883-1916), but this isn't it. Rozenburg vase:

 

Very pretty. I like it.

 

Silver overlay, or electroform. Probably Bohemian, late 19th to early 20th. Very nice.

 

Most silver overlay I find here is that wedding anniversary stuff. This is much nicer, and probably a lot older.

 

Think she is more allegorical, probably Spring. Fortuna & Abundatia often have a cornucopia as an attribute, although usually filled more with grain & poppy heads rather than flowers only. Those ladies, along with Flora, Eos/Aurora & Persephone/Proserpina inspired her, but don't think we can give her a name of her own.

My first thought on something like this is always Shafer Vater, but clearly not. Like the celadon glaze. Annoyed that the applied silver frame cuts into the modeled figure.

I got into 'sprigged' pottery a while back. Still in boxes; not enough cat-proof space available. Do have a big Minton Drunken Silenus pitcher sitting safely on the bedroom floor.

 

Um, it's not sprigged pottery or glazed, it's glass. So, not pate sur pate, or Schafer und Vater.

It's very well done. The silver work was almost certainly done by someone other than the glassworks. I wish I had it in my hand, I can't decide if it's good glass enamelling or cameo work. And thinking about it, it may be French.

 

What a charming little critter !!!!

 

OP says this is glass, and to my eye, does appear to be cased glass with white enamel decoration (often called 'Mary Gregory', personally prefer the German 'quarkmal') Bit unusual to see cased glass, and especially that color, with the enamel work, and unusual to see the silver deposit - believe Bear is probably correct in dating and that it's Bohemian, though suppose it might be German or Austrian. Really quite charming little piece...

~Cheryl

 

Cheryl, I suspect it's an homage in glass to jasperware/pate sur pate. I've had clear glass with that kind of silver floral work, but yes, the casing and enamelling is unusual. The tray I had with similar silver motifs had British hallmarks, for what that's worth.

 

That is so sad, everyone deserves a name.

 

Sylvia.

 

She looks like a Sylvia, so Sylvia it is. Thank you, you just saved me from a sleepless night.

 

Bear - would think the classical designs more an homage to ancient Roman cameo glass, like the Portland vase that inspired Wedgwood.

You're right, the silver deposit (usually called silver overlay now) wouldn't have been applied by the glass manufacturer, much of it was done by American firms, but was also done in Europe. A quick search for Mary Gregory with silver overlay doesn't find any other examples and I can't recall seeing it before, though would imagine there are others to be found.

Most of the cased Mary Gregory I've seen has been pink, like the one in the pic below, shown with examples in transparent, satin and opaque glass:


The opaque green piece at far right on this page does not appear to be cased: https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/168999-mary-gregory-glass-attributed-to-mhlha

And showing this large pair just because they're so nice: https://www.rauantiques.com/mary-gregory-cranberry-glass-vases

~Cheryl

 

Thanks for the help everyone. Good to see you are on the ball as usual. For the record the lady is enameled and I think hand done as there are substantial variations in thickness across her form. Pity there are no marks as I would love to know who did it. In my other post (Whopper Amphora vase....) AuDragon and pewter2 referred to the auction house sales for European porcelain being dead here in Oz and they are right. This little gem only cost $30 and if nobody buys her I'm more than happy to keep her forever.
Cheers
Stephen

 

Very beautiful!
I saw similar shape and design by Heubach, but no silver casing.
In any case, nice Find!

 

Cheryl, it was more the colour than the classical motif? It's a very jasper hue, that.

 

There is a degree of similarity with this one. Hornberg, but clearly marked.

 

That's porcelain, not glass, though. OP's is glass.