Featured Do you know the mark on this Bohemian? English? Glass Vase

I've been calling this Bohemian for over a decade. No proof. Moorish/Persian, for the Islamic market. Again, no documentation. Just adding more thoughts on the subject.

 

I've always been slightly suspicious of the narrative that says stuff was made for the Islamic market in the late 19th and early 20th. My reasoning is that the so called oriental taste was wildly fashionable here, let alone in Europe.

 

You may well be right. My sources are not documents, but people, dealers, mostly.

 

I suspect it's the usual thing: one or two decided on this Islamic market idea and the theory propagated. The influences really came the other way: from the Empire.

 

Now that we mention it, we did have a large canary (Vaseline) jug, cut and engraved that was deemed to be the lower portion of a hookah, (or whatever) It sold on Ebay for $800 to someone in the middle east then EBAY canceled the sale, saying the buyer was not reliable. (It did sell eventually, somewhere north of $500)

So...some glass was made for that market. Somewhere.