Topic: Ikora style lamp base...

[dirk.]

The crackle effect doesn´t necessarily have to be white BTW. Here´s a lamp I sold recently...

[rocco]

Dirk, very nice one...
It does look similar to mine, doesn't it, and with a slightly unusual fixture as well.

I rechecked the metalwork on mine, and no mark anywhere.

m, the piece you linked to does look like it should be from the same maker, and so do some of the WMF lamp bases on the glaskilian site I linked to in my first post.
So I would say the glass is WMF, maybe the fixture isn't...

One more thing I noticed: at the base where the casing is quite thick, the clear glass seems to be brown and not colourless; the piece I referred to before seems to have a very similar base regarding the stepped foot and the colour.

Michael

[flying free]

These really are beautiful lamps.
I think a thread should be started on here for Ikora lamps only, then that way, combined with Glaskilian's fantastic resource, it may eventually provide a comprehensive resource for Ikora lampbases.
m

[rocco]

There is another one on ebay atm from an Austrian seller, which looks quite similar to mine regarding the pattern and technique...
It does have a rather unusual fixture (brass) as well. (No idea if it is marked in any way)

So there seems to be an Austrian style of Ikora lamps

Michael

[flying free]

aha, I hadn't managed to find these before strangely, I don't know why but I may have been looking at a different part of the site -  these do seem to be in a similarish colourway do you think?
http://www.glaskilian.de/WMF.579.0.html
m

[rocco]

Thanks m, I had linked to that site somewhere at the beginning of the thread...

They do look similar to mine (the crackle is a little bit less pronounced than in mine, but they also lack the silver chloride and the bubbles).

According to Glaskilian these seem to be WMF but not Ikora.

Michael

[rocco]

I found another one of these lamps, same decoration as the first one, different shape and colours...

Has a brass fixture, and a hole in the centre of the base (don't really know why)

I still wonder about this style of Ikora lamps; they all have a shape different to the "classic" Ikora lamps, lack the silver chlorides, and usually have a brass fixture (rounded, not angled like the standard chrome fittings with WMF mark).
My new one is quite similar to the one I had linked to before: >> link
There is another one on ebay atm with a very unusual shape as well, but quite similarly coloured to my first one: >> link

Any further thoughts? -- As none of these seems to me marked WMF, should we still consider the slight possibility of a different maker?

Thanks!
Michael

[flying free]

oooh that's a lovely decor!
Tentatively, I don't suppose these could be Czechoslovakian could they?  Maybe part of Kralik's art deco range of glass?
m

[rocco]

Thanks a lot, m!
Yes, coulors in this one are even nicer than in the first one.

Search for Kralik or other Bohemian Art Deco glass lamps doesn't fetch any result, so I guess WMF is most probable at the moment (and as Dirk was 80% sure...); still interesting that -- despite of the obvious similarities in decor -- there are quite a few differences to known Ikora lamp bases.

My second one has a shape similar to this Ikora lamp base, but no exact match...

Michael

[flying free]

It does still look like Ikora Michael.
Are there any other makers who may have adopted a similar technique?  The only one  I could think of to explore was possibly Kralik although I don't remember seeing this decor from them.  I think they did do a cased crackle effect but not as complicated as this as I remember seeing?
m