Topic: Lightweight uranium vase - ID please

[Chris Harrison]

27 cm tall, but extremely light.
Very clear glass with no impurities.

[malwodyn]

The way the neck has been finished - ground flat - makes me think it is likely to be Bohemian

[dirk.]

bohemian would have been my guess, too - around 1915...?

[Ivo]

I would have placed these in Bavaria because I own a copy of
http://www.hatjecantz.de/controller.php?cmd=detail&titzif=00000633
to which I might add that the book contains no attributions @ all so anything is possible.
Hunch only...

[Chris Harrison]

Thanks all.

Ivo, the vase on the right is something like.  Well spotted.

From the blurb, though, it seems as though the book is a general volume about glass - a look at glass design, manufacture and recycling.  And if you say that there's no attribution...

Although the book is from the Uni of Munich, I'm not sure that Bavaria is particularly relevant.  For example, I think the green vase is an Ankerglas piece from the 1930s (or perhaps Hoffmann from earlier), and was made at Bernsdorf in Saxony.  And a couple of the others (including the one on the right) could be von Streit, Berlin.

So, German or Bohemian?  Hmmm.

[Anne]

Isn't (wasn't) Bavaria a part of Germany, Chris? (My geography of former European areas isn't that sound so I'm not sure what was where.)

[Ivo]

The Glas zum Gebrauch exhibition highlights the glass collection from a collector couple who have bought all their glass regionally, and managed to get together a fabulous collection of glass from markets in Bavaria. This would of course include mainstream glasss from other regions and walks of life - but still have an emphasis on Bavarian glass. You can inmagine why the exhibition organisers have decided not to identify the collection. The whole set was bought over by the Bavarian national museum - where I'm sure it lingers in the cellar for lack of identification.

[Chris Harrison]

Thanks for the clarification, Ivo.  The book's description is distinctly lacking, in that case.

Don't know where I got the Uni thing from.  :huh:

I'll be in Munich soon (Oktoberfest, if not before), and I'll try and make the time to go see what's on display in the museum... although, if it's during O'fest, I may see two of everything...