Crystal Vases

There is a selection of heavyweight Crystal Vases to choose from.  A favourite is the one on the right, the 10” (25cm) Smile Vase.  This Crystal Vase is so named because the top resembles a smiling face, ensuring anyone will have a happy experience receiving it..!  An important factor in your selection of a Crystal Vase is weight.

Weight of Crystal Vases

The weight is often determined by the wall thickness of the Crystal Vase.  The 10” Smile Vase, above, has a wall thickness of 7mm (1/4”), which adds considerably to the weight.  In addition to making the glass feel valuable to hold, it aids stability when full of flowers.  A further factor in adding to the weight of a Crystal Vase is the addition of Lead Oxide to the glass batch.  The Smile Vase is not the only Crystal Vase to have these factors; there are a number of different designs and sizes in The Glass Engraver range, available from The Glass Engraver Websites.

The Bohemia Crystal 'Smile' Vase

Clarity and Colour of Crystal Vases

To hold up a Crystal Vase and see a clarity of Crystal means that the glass (essentially made from sand) has had all the Iron removed.  With a Crystal Vase, it also means that further oxides have been added to the glassmaker’s ingredients.  In particular, Lead Oxide, or Potash, Barium or Zinc.  Additional clarity aids refraction.  Think of a pyramid and the manner in which light enters one side and comes out the other in lots of different colours, just like a rainbow.  That is what refraction does.  And so it is, with any high quality Crystal Vase.  Clarity aids the passing of light, giving the vase ‘colour’.

Engraved Crystal Vase

There are few nicer gifts or presentations one can make, than a thoughtfully Engraved Crystal Vase.  A practical gift, which can be displayed easily and with pride.  Full of flowers, an Engraved Crystal Vase looks stunning.

Engraved Crystal Vase