Topic: Is this Kralik?

[athelny]

I bought this vase in a job lot of 18th century glass... I know nothing about it but a look through eBay showed something similar and was described as Wilhelm Kralik produced in Czechoslovakia. Any information would be very helpful.

[athelny]

or perhaps Ruckle?

[keith]

Czech,yes,Kralik,maybe...there are a few experts here who'll let you know when they see your post,Keith.

[athelny]

Ruckle seems a very likely candidate... see following link

http://www.great-glass.co.uk/library/lib1c.htm#R

[obscurities]

Is it marked in any way on the underside of the base with an acid stamp of any kind?  If not this type of glass can be quite difficult to attribute.

Many companies did this sort of glass. Most of it is next to impossible to identify as to the source unless it is marked in some manner. The best form of attribution for this would come from another piece in a known decor specific to a glass house, but in the same shape, as the shape is distinctive enough to be unique to one maker.

Craig

[athelny]

No sign of any mark I'm afraid.

[KevinH]

Note that the items in the Great Glass site (and also those in the Truitt book) under the Rückl category all have significant areas of black (or other colour, depending on the main body colour) rising from the base - and on a couple of pieces I have, the black covers the whole underside of the base / foot, too. Also, the Rückl pieces shown tend to have a fairly obvious "blobbed" spatter patterning.

In the item shown here, there is not the extent of black (or whatever) and the red-yellow spatter is more "striped" than "blobbed". So maybe that is a clue that they might not be Rückl (assuming those others are). But I am sure Craig would know more about that than I do.

[obscurities]

Kevin's observations are valid, but I would also have to add that the shape is, based on documentation I have seen on Rückl, does not strike me strongly as their work. My experience, which is limited with them, is that they generally used more simplistic forms than this piece has, so the shape would probably have me looking in another direction also.  In many cases with this type of glass, shape is the key to identification.... if it can ever be definitively attributed at all.

I would also add that I would date the piece to the Deco era (1925-1935), as the style of the base and body use a repetition of 3 bulges and steps. "3" was a very big Deco era design technique and you will see repetitions of "3" in many designs of that period.

Craig