No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

Author Topic: Bomemian etched glass vase  (Read 612 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline norman warbreck

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 612
Bomemian etched glass vase
« on: November 06, 2009, 04:01:16 PM »
this piece as seen in the pic is of an etched angel and its signed M.K (nineteen eighty).
Could this a piece by Marta Kerhartova....who worked in functional pieces as well as etched glass.
Any ideas please.
best
norman

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Sklounion

  • Guest
Re: Bomemian etched glass vase
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2009, 05:27:04 PM »
If it were her, Norman, I"d be expecting a full signature, and if only initialled, with the initials in the reverse order. (KM, though one early piece is known with MK, but that dates to the 1950s) Nor, it has to be said, is the decor stylistically typical of her work, usually very fine and complex, line engraving. Is it sand or bead-blasted decoration, or etched? It seems very crude, using a simple resist technique, but what appears to be a Czech blank, was used. Unless Jindrich thinks otherwise, I would not get too excited.
M

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline norman warbreck

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 612
Re: Bomemian etched glass vase
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2009, 08:28:26 AM »
Hi M
have looked at this seriously and it is etched with lines in a downward stroke...technique.Never had a known piece in my hand to compare but i guess u are right with the ....not great quality work.The bohemian source that i have simply mentions her etched work...no specifics but with two pictured examples which are rather abstract designs.....but who knows she may in her later years have gone all...angelly...smile.
Have found no evidence of her still working around nineteen eighty.
thanks for looking and advise
best
norman

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
Visit the Glass Encyclopedia
link to glass encyclopedia
Visit the Online Glass Museum
link to glass museum


This website is provided by Angela Bowey, PO Box 113, Paihia 0247, New Zealand