{"id":8649,"date":"2018-11-25T11:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2018-11-25T11:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T16:00:50","slug":"make-dont-fake-do-or-the-real-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8649","title":{"rendered":"Make-Don&#8217;t, Fake-Do, or the real deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #111111;\">Every so often I find a piece that stumps me, stopping me dead in my tracks. This is one such example.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #111111;\">I purchased this\u00a06.5 inch high\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525;\">robin&#8217;s egg\u00a0<\/span>blue satin glass goblet at an antiques shop in Southern Vermont where I have found other interesting antiques with inventive\u00a0repairs. At first glance, I believed it to have an at-home\u00a0wood replacement base repair, similar to dozens of others I own. Upon closer inspection, I am not so sure.<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #111111;\">Although I have a few examples of finely turned wood bases, this one seems too slick and intentional to be a replacement. The glass itself is in perfect condition, with no indication of its base having been snapped off.<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<div>After a bit of research, I believe the goblet to be a reproduction of French Portieux Vallerysthal glass, c.1900. Why it has a wood base is a mystery, but if anyone has any information, I would love to hear from you.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=13345\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13345\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13345\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913-Version-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913-Version-2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913-Version-2-293x300.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=13344\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13344\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13344\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7915.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7915.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7915-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7915-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?attachment_id=13346\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13346\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13346\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_7913-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These goblets have their original bases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/portieux-goblet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8650\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/portieux-goblet.jpg\" alt=\"portieux goblet\" width=\"386\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/portieux-goblet.jpg 386w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/portieux-goblet-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\">eBay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every so often I find a piece that stumps me, stopping me dead in my tracks. This is one such example. I purchased this\u00a06.5 inch high\u00a0robin&#8217;s egg\u00a0blue satin glass goblet at an antiques shop in Southern Vermont where I have found other interesting antiques with inventive\u00a0repairs. At first glance, I believed it to have an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[55,32,12],"class_list":["post-8649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goblet","tag-french","tag-glass","tag-wood-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13362,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/13362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}