Help with etched compote please

[amazinggracehsts]

Might be a long shot but I'm getting nowhere in my research. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction on this etched compote(?). It's very nicely done with daisies(?) and butterflies and foliage. The "bowl" is 1/4" thick so it's pretty substantial. Stands almost 8" high - the bowl is about 6" across. No markings. No luck yet on Replacements. The purple tint is a reflection from my camera. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

[mforjan]

Hi, I can not help ID, but I can tell you the design is cut, not etched. The areas where the design is frosted is because those areas were left unpolished 

[amazinggracehsts]

Well that would make a bit of difference wouldn't it! I found a similar shaped hexagon stem made by Heisey so I'll chase that down. Thank you!  Mark

[gabla]

for me it looks like a gray cutting most likely giftware from Europee and fairly new. It does not look like heisey to me I think the glass was made after Heisey closed. Does the glass have lead content ie react to shortwave blacklight.

[amazinggracehsts]

Thank you George. I'm afraid I won't have access to my black light until next week. It does have considerable wear on the bottom. I'm not sure what "gray cutting" is? 

[mforjan]

Gray curing is another name for the unpolished cut design 

[gabla]

The cut marks can be made clear by using increasingly finer grades of grit/rouge (generally visable with a loupe, or acked or fire polished to remove the gray. It is possible but unlikely that this was sand carved (ie sand blasted).

[amazinggracehsts]

Thank you both - I learn so much from this forum. Is gray curing a bad thing? Does it lessen the value of a piece? I am assuming once I can get this piece under a black light that the different colors it may display mean different things and will indicate the possible age of the piece?

[rubiano98]

The notching in the rim makes me think Euopean-made. For some reason I have that stuck in the dim recesses of my memory as a typical European glassware thing.

[gabla]

Short wave will show lead in a blue long wave does not. Gray cutting is a decorating techniquw. The skell with which it ia used is what counts.

[amazinggracehsts]

Thank you all for the information and opinions. We'll see what it does under the blacklight next week. 

[amazinggracehsts]

I was finally reunited with my blacklight today. This compote has a nice yellowish glow. What would that indicate?

[gabla]

Long or short wave UV light?

[amazinggracehsts]

I can't find the literature on the light but I'm fairly certain it is long wave.