Topic: Heavy Sommerso faceted vase , Murano or Czech perhaps

[Andy]

A nice modern quality Sommerso vase, i actually treated myself to at the Birmingham Glass fair, last year, neither i nor the seller are sure of its origins. He thought Murano, i thought maybe Czech, which he said a few others had suspected as well. Its fairly recent. Over 2kg, 8 inches tall. Round ,but cut and polished on 4 sides. All nicely done with beviled edges, and a hole in the bottom.
Any ideas??  I also have a modern bottle which could have come from the same factory, which i will show in a seperate post.
Cheers
Andy

[Greg.]

Hi Andy,

Just looking at the pics, my first thoughts were Czech, not sure how old though, may be relatively recent in date...

Just a speculative guess, might be worth looking at some Vizner designs..? may be well of the mark, somewhere to start...

Greg

[Andy]

Greg,
thats along the lines i was thinking when i bought it. Maybe fairly recent Beranek production or similar.
 

[Greg.]

Andy,

Think your on the right track...have a look at the Beranek Glassworks website, under product catalogue/vases, although not the same, there's some similar designs....

http://www.refinex.cz/bg/

Greg
 

[rocco]

Maybe Princ glass? -- http://www.princglass.com/katalog_en.aspx?IDKategorie=2

Michael

[flying free]

Andy you may have found this information already but if not, there is some further comments and info on this thread about Princ glass.
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,39699.msg219823.html#msg219823
m

[Mosquito]

Don't rule out 中国!

[poppyparker]

Hi there.  I was trawling through images looking for my ashtray and found this link.  I don't read anything other than English so I have no idea what it says but the vase looks so similar in style to yours that I had to write.

http://www.artnet.se/konstnyheter/konstauktioner/blomqvist-auksjoner-oslo-3/

[Andy]

Thanks all,
 i know i cant totally rule out the far east, but i feel the quality is just so much better. I see Prinz make some interesting pieces, and some very close copies of Beranek and others, including Exbor. I did handle a piece of Prinz once, and wasnt that impressed, although other pieces may be better quality.
poppyparker, very interesting, i worked out a little from that picture, which was a sale by a Scandinavian collector, and i found the catalogue , its a piece by Willy Johansson of Hadeland, Norway ,
https://www.blomqvist.no/Klassisk-auksjon/DAG-FROELANDS-SAMLING-2011/Katalog/(offset)/70

I'd like to think thats nearer to the quality of mine, but would imagine most Scandinavian stuff is signed. Just in case i will have a good look at Hadeland, may get lucky
 Cheers and Thanks,
Andy