Featured Green Opaline Vase with Hand-Painted Flowers

Picked this up over the weekend. The moment I saw it, I knew it was something special. When I held it up to the light, the light shone through as a soft amber, and I realized it might be opaline glass. The bottom has a polished pontil. No signature as far as I can tell. Any thoughts on the age or origin?

 

Late 1800s, early 1900s
Bohemian enamel painted vase.

 

Thank you So it is indeed opaline glass?

 

The glass exhibits opalescent qualities. "Opaline" is a word which has been used to describe those qualities. More important is the quality of the enamel decoration, which is nice.

 

If the base has a rough pontil mark, it could be called English Bristol Glass.

 

But it was still made in Bohemia ca. 1900 plus or minus.

 

It has a smooth one. It's polished smoothly on the bottom, but you can tell it was hand-blown.

 

Hey Cherryhill,

What are your thoughts on this opaline glass bottle, about 6.5 inches tall? Bohemian or French?

 

French is a foreign country, it doesn't look Bohemian, the shape/form is wrong. To remove a bit of mystery, the opalescence is achieved by mixing a bit of bone ash in the batch. Tin compounds make it white.