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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lauragarnet, post: 105302, member: 105&quot;]I finally did find some glass with this technique and it&#039;s all Tiffany Glass called Lava Favrile or Cypriot/Cyrpriote.</p><p>And found one description calling it <i><b>pock marked</b></i>, so, hopefully that will be another good key word.</p><p><br /></p><p>Kardi, is the glass thick and heavy? Or is it thin and light weight? Can you post a pic looking down at the inside that shows the thickness at the top of the opening?</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=cypriote+glass&amp;biw=1016&amp;bih=599&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjP84PYgIrKAhXLMSYKHSoFDvUQ_AUICCgD" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=cypriote+glass&amp;biw=1016&amp;bih=599&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjP84PYgIrKAhXLMSYKHSoFDvUQ_AUICCgD" rel="nofollow"><b>Google image search Cypriote glass</b></a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think [USER=132]@desperate_fun[/USER] is correct about the &#039;frit pick up&#039; technique. Here is how it was described on an old Antiques Roadshow episode:</p><p><img src="http://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/images/wa200802A10_00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Tiffany Red Cypriote Glass Vase, ca. 1926</p><p>Appraised Value: $25,000</p><p>Appraised on: June 28, 2008</p><p>Appraised in: Dallas, Texas</p><p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200802A10.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/roadshow/archive/200802A10.html" rel="nofollow"><b>Antiques Roadshow Originally Aired: February 2, 2009 </b></a></p><p><b>APPRAISER:</b> &quot;Well, I&#039;m glad you kept it safe because it is a piece of Tiffany glass. And this type of glass is called Cypriote glass. Cypriote is c-y-p-r-i-o-t-e. And Cypriote glass is the type of glass that is characterized by the irregular, pitted and textured surface that you see on this vase. What it&#039;s meant to replicate is how the excavated Roman glass looked when it was discovered. Usually what happened over the time that it was buried, the chemicals in the minerals and moisture in the dirt or the sand would react with the surface of glass, and it would create something that looked just like this. And according to Jimmy Stewart-- not the actor but one of the chief people who worked in the glassblowing department at Tiffany-- <i><b>he described how this was made.</b></i> <i><b>And what they did is they took a hot gather of glass and they rolled it on a marver. A marver was an iron or marble table, and on the table were crushed-up bits of glass, the same kind of glass, and they rolled it in the glass and then they reheated it and they blew it into its final form.</b></i> And sometimes they would make it into an iridescent surface. This one isn&#039;t so much iridized, but the earlier ones were done that way. And it sounds like a fairly complex technique, but they were able to make this in the 1890s. However, this is a later piece. This piece actually dates from the 1920s.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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