Ysart Brothers/Vasart

Originally attributed to Paul Ysart (due to the typical Ysart canes), what puzzled us were the seemingly unconnected letters scratched around the base and the lightly-ground pontil mark. A lady who worked at Vasart pointed out that the letters (you had to look very closely!) formed the word “Pirelli..

A low-domed closepack over a clear ground with an assortment of millefiori canes typically associated with early Ysart Brothers weights. Colours include pale pinks, blues, yellows and translucent mauve. There are also a couple of more complex canes in opaque white, translucent pistachio and turquois..

From a central 6 cane cluster radial latticinio twists divide the blue-textured ground into 8 panels, each containing a large cane plus 2 complex perimeter canes. An interesting cane study for an Ysart/Vasart collector - because, apart from the pairs of perimeter canes (which are the same) there is ..

The terracotta ground is divided by white, yellow & green twists into 5 panels filled with canes, some of which are complex. For instance, the first composite cane in each group consists of 16 orange & green rods around 8 blue & white florets with an orange tube and yellow star in the centre ! The o..

A 4 row concentric on clear. The red-and-white canes in the 2nd  row from the centre all display fracture lines - a feature often found in Salvador’s canes. The canes in the 2 outer rows are separated by “cracked ice” glass rods with a blue and pale-pink twist in them. The base is flat with a slight..

A 2-row concentric set around 4 centre canes in red, yellow & blue tones. In the next row, red & pink composite canes are set next to orange & green cogs, while the outer row has dark-green canes alternating with white &yellow-centred violet canes. The ground is an opaque, mottled yellowish/orange.T..