Topic: old aubergine cased clear-blue glass vase last attempt to get pix up

[bOBA]

    Hello all!
Apologies...I had difficulties uploading images in last post. 13-14 inch vase I bought the other day, I don't usually buy items in this style but the colours and texture persuaded me!! Highly unlikely to be Whitefriars (!) as sold. Can anybody recommend some likely candidates as makers, this one has me stumped! Base colour interesting turns from clear to blue depending on light......


yours,

bOBA

[bOBA]

The Pix have gone up! Hooray. It is about 13-14 iches tall quite large, smooth base and scratched base like some czech and scandinavian pices I have. it is quite old since it had scratches on base and a lot of settled dirt inside and out when bought,
bOBA

[Ivo]

I think we all would like to see the underside before we can say anything remotely sensible. There is a huge sliding scale between roughly ground, finely ground, polished, polished and scratched by use, or combinations of the above. At first glance it looks Chinese or Polish - but ony the underside can confirm.

[bOBA]

Thx Ivo,
Image of base hopefully attached. Polish or Chinese sounds interesting, a nice piece of glass though. I would like to know if there are any factors, esp. when seeing the base, that may help clarify the nationality of a pice of glass? The base looks European to me, but I would like to know what about the base may make it Chinese-Polish, or is this based partly on style and colour, combined with the base?
If any makers ring any bells, I would like to know, i don't know of any Chinese glassmakers at all....  good quality glass though, it strikes me a beautiful thing when it is in front of you,

yours,


bOBA

[Ivo]

looks like a decent finish so maybe not Polish or Chinese. But not conclusive to anything. Could be Aseda, Chalet, VSL, Vannes or several other companies - maybe someone will recognise it. It is also not old and it does not have "soft" scratch - the unfakeable smooth stand ring of older glass.

[bOBA]

Thx for your opinion Ivo, for many pieces of glass shown on the forum you usually have a good shot at the maker. It seems like this is a tricky one to identify and I may have to just hope there is a possible way... I guess it is quite a generic type style of shape and that does not help... I do like the vase though and I can at least be somewhat happy about that!! Thx (as usual) for trying to help out,

bOBA

[Jindra8526]

Possibly Skrdlovice, 1958-1959 - Jan Beranek.

Jindrich

[bOBA]

Jindrich,
I really hope you are right! I am becoming a big fan of Skrdlovice, I like almost all their glass that I have seen. I know that this glassworks is one of your specialist study areas.

I was wondering if you may have an image of the Jan Beranek 1958-1959 vase you think may resemble this aubergine-aqua-clear one?

Could I help by sending you better images of the vase directly? I would appreciate corresponding with you regarding some other Skrdlovice I have acquired recently in any case. Would you have an email address I could use?

I happened to pick up a Kotik Atlas vase recently and Andy from the forum helped me identify it. (Thx Andy!). I also showed a pic of it to Dr Graham Cooley, after a recent talk he gave at Broadfield. He helpfully confirmed it as well, though could give me no detail regarding the colours and how common it was... he let slip he has 14 atlas vases including some of the big 4 kilo plus ones!! Lucky guy. I will try to post a pic of my vase.

Plz let me know if there is anything I can do to try to find out more about your suggestion of 1958-1959 Beranek attribution, I would like to try to confirm this if possible, would I have to read the Czecheslovakian glassrevue journal for that year?

bOBA

[Jindra8526]

Hi bOBA,

Your vase is really Skrdlovice piece, it is hard to say when it was fabricated.
Basically this style of decoration and  shape had been designed by Kotik about 1956. After Kotik was this shape in modification often used by Jan Beranek and other Skrdlovice glassmakers, you can find a lot of colour and shape modifications.

You can find a lot of pictures of  Skrdlovice pieces in Glasrevue issues from 1958, but you can be sure, your vase came from Skrdlovice.

Jindrich

[bOBA]

Thx very much for your comments Jindrich!

I am pleased that you recognise these pieces and think they both fit into the history of Skrdlovice glass.

It seems as though I have a few Skrdlovice glass items now!

I hope to post some more in due course for more analysis... Thank you very much for your help on this occasion. Of course, if you would like any better quality pictures at any time please ask, just email me, although you already probably have most of the Skrdlovice output already in your own collection....

thanks again for your help,

yours,

bOBA