Topic: Czech Tango ?

[Jay]

Perhaps it's named after the fizzy drink! ;-)

[chopin-liszt]

http://west-penwith.org.uk/misc/tango.htm

Not orange, but "Tango" in relation to pottery.

I did find other pottery named "Tango" too, but not as nice as Doulton.

[Lustrousstone]

According to the Oxford dictionary, tango, as a word for a dance originated in the late 19th from Latin American Spanish possibly via an African word for to dance, and as a colour (a deep orange red) in the early 20th century by abbreviating tangerine (as in a Tangerine orange - an orange from Tanger, as Tangier was known). This use for a colour is a dated and informal British usage. Which explains the orange but not Mike's bright pink, which could be a translation error of course

[chopin-liszt]

 

I believe that was the context in which I was trying to explain the use of Tango, well done, Christine - I couln't get into Oxford dictionary - not paid up! It was a deco-period slang/trendy expression to describe the very fashionable orange colour in clothes, pottery, and glass.

[Mike M]

Very Interesting!!!!

If anyone wants to see the difference between orange and tango -according to Schneider then you need

'Schneider' maitre verrier -Gerard Bertrand - pages 223-6 and the colours and names are on the original Schneider design pages  -page dates appear to be early 1920s but the designs are from 1918ish The tango is a very reddy orange -and the pieces in real life are bright pink (OK with just a hint of orange)

I guess this was a colour oddity soley down to Schneider -maybe they could have got it from Daum - but the only colour references I've very seen for this period of Daum just have code numbers

cheers

Mike