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Author Topic: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?  (Read 3943 times)

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Wow, I am glad that the board is back  :)

I found this beautiful vase last week, and I would think it was made at Cesky Crystal -- Chlum u Trebone.
Colours are identical to pieces from Jan Gabrhel and Pavel Hlava from the seventies, but I couldn't find the shape anywhere...
 
30 cm high, polished and bevelled rim, heat sensitive glass I guess.

Michael

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 08:05:03 PM »
Still not found a match for my vase ???

I was thinking of this Hlava piece and the one in Mark Hill's book which have identical colours, or the Jan Gabrhel vases in similar colourways and with rings here and here...

edit: or am I completely off the track and the colours and style were used by other makers (and in other countries) as well?

Any input very much appreciated!
Thanks,
Michael

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2012, 09:55:29 PM »
Hi Michael... I do see how you feel this piece is Czech.  I've searched a little myself, but haven't come up with anything useful or helpful.  (But at least you know you aren't being ignored.)

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2012, 09:31:49 AM »
Thanks a lot for looking into this, Anik!

I don't have much doubt that the vase is Czech and from Cesky Kristal -- Chlum u Trebone...
Still a designer name or reference would be great :)

I will have to browse all CGR issues from the 1980s and 90s I guess and see if I can find something.
Pity that Jindrich isn't around much any more -- he might know at once...

Michael

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2012, 01:22:41 PM »
I didn't see your piece in the CGR.  Perhaps you could try contacting Jindrich through his website?  :)

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2012, 07:15:48 AM »
Thanks Anik!
I could write to Jindrich, but I always hesitate to bother people via e-mail...
I noticed he was around, so he obviously doesn't have time to contribute.

He has given us incredible resources to do our own research, anyway.

Meanwhile I am quite contented with my Chlum attribution :)

Michael

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2022, 02:01:54 PM »
A while back I found another (smaller) one of these vases, this time with an interesting label reading:
"Včelnička, Rückl & Sons"

I am still not much wiser as to designer of these vases, but I read somewhere (can't remember where) that there was a connection to Chlum u Třeboně glassworks who produced the similar Gabrhel pieces.

And the famous Pavel Hlava pieces with punctures in heat sensitive glass seem to have been produced at Vcelnicka as well >> http://www.czechglassguide.cz/Vcelnicka-Vase-d7675.htm

I attach a pic of my small collection of Czech heat sensitive glass showing both vases...

Michael

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2022, 10:51:25 PM »
Very sculptural as group and great colour combination.

Is the colour gradation due to it being heat sensitive glass and having been reheated, a bit like Webb's Alexandrite?

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Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2022, 07:14:31 AM »
Yes exactly.
That effect can be seen very well in the Hlava pieces with punctures...

Michael

 

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