Trio Vase

By Bob Patterson

Here is a vase that I haven’t seen before and, of course, when I saw it, I had to have it. The pattern is Trio by Eda Glassworks in Sweden. The glass is thick and heavy, and the blue base color is somewhere between cobalt and dark ice blue. The multi-color iridescence is strong and rich.

It stands approximately seven and three‐fourths inches tall and three and three-eighths inches across the top. The eight-sided base has a twenty-point star that is recessed one and one‐half inch up into the vase. It also has a ground base, so it sits very flat. The top has nine flutes and at first glance at the inside lip it appears to be rough. However, on close examination the inside lip is stippled!

The Trio pattern can be found in A Century of Carnival Glass by Glen and Stephen Thistlewood. A bowl is shown in blue, but the bowl pattern has a circle of the teardrops with three lines inside each teardrop. The vase features a mirror image of the teardrops and makes the bowl look like half a pattern.

I got this on eBay from a seller who was located in Sweden. It took what seemed like forever for it to arrive, but it finally showed up on my doorstep.

If you look at the rim inside the flutes you see that there is stippling around that rim.

Note the large indentation on the underside of the base.

Since it’s the only one I have seen, I was wondering if anyone else out there in the wide world of ICGA has one or knows of another. I would love to hear from you if you have one of these.

Photos courtesy of Bob Patterson.

This article first appeared in the ICGA Pump in the September 2016 issue and is reprinted with permission.