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Author Topic: Now here is a REAL challenge! Portland vase  (Read 17554 times)

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Offline chopin-liszt

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Re: Now here is a REAL challenge! Portland vase
« Reply #50 on: August 25, 2020, 04:35:33 PM »
And this thread is still about the Portland vase, not the oldest glassworks...  ;)
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Re: Now here is a REAL challenge! Portland vase
« Reply #51 on: August 25, 2020, 04:46:26 PM »
It will get split soon Sue, I'm sure  ;D

Offline sph@ngw

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Re: Now here is a REAL challenge! Portland vase
« Reply #52 on: September 03, 2023, 08:27:45 AM »
ooh I just have to add to Stephen's post though before it's moved :)

I thought Chrbska was the oldest glass manufactory.

http://www.luzicke-hory.cz/mista/index.php?pg=obchrid

' The von Schleinitz family owned Chřibská in Horní(Oberkreibitz) a glassworks, the existence of which is confirmed with certainty in 1504. This glassworks remained in the possession of the Friedrich family until 1689; later it changed hands several times, among which after 1742 the Kittel family was the best known. The hut was in operation almost continuously until 2007.'

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'...A number of production facilities have disappeared and in 2007 the glass factory in Horní Chřibská , the oldest continuously operating glass factory in Central Europe, was closed.'
I thought I said "oldest existing glass factory?
I visited von  Poschinger factory in 2019, and it is still going, with the head of the family still at the helm!

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Re: Now here is a REAL challenge! Portland vase
« Reply #53 on: September 03, 2023, 02:38:33 PM »
I remember a video from the 1980s where a New York glass studio made an exact replica, solving all the technical issues. Turned out the techniques were different from the ones assumed for the original.

 

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