No-one likes general adverts, and ours hadn't been updated for ages, so we're having a clear-out and a change round to make the new ones useful to you. These new adverts bring in a small amount to help pay for the board and keep it free for you to use, so please do use them whenever you can, Let our links help you find great books on glass or a new piece for your collection. Thank you for supporting the Board.

Author Topic: Identifying glass vase from Austria  (Read 2495 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline flying free

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 12677
    • UK
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #10 on: December 17, 2012, 06:32:55 PM »
reminds me a little of Karl Wiedmann's pieces?  is that possible?
m

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14451
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #11 on: December 17, 2012, 06:44:14 PM »
I think Karl Weidmann produced somewhat more sophisticated pieces - he's been around for a lo-ooong time and I'm well aware he was probably well ahead of his time - I just feel that by the 60's, his more studio-style work was still finished beautifully. (says she, thinking of her stunning gralglas ashtray.  ;) )
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline flying free

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 12677
    • UK
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #12 on: December 17, 2012, 06:57:46 PM »
yes I agree, but I wondered whether it might actually have been produced in the 30's ?  is that possible?
m

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14451
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #13 on: December 17, 2012, 07:18:33 PM »
This doesn't look '30s to me at all...
How "inexperienced" was he in the '30s?

ok, you've twisted my arm - here's my Gralglas Weidmann ashtray. I display it upside-down, so that's how you're getting it. It's bum is it's prettiest side. This is, of course, his much later work.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline flying free

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 12677
    • UK
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #14 on: December 17, 2012, 07:28:01 PM »
gorgeous!  and all beautifully finished.
Aah well, perhaps not then.  I think we need very good clear large shots of the vase in question as it's too hard to see the decoration on it - there is a patch of what I thought might be bubbles so that brought him to mind.
m

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14451
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #15 on: December 17, 2012, 07:36:57 PM »
I thought the patch in question might be the tin..  ???

I'm afraid, Watcherinla, we are going to need much bigger images so we can see the whole thing much better.
However, your description of colours coming out everywhere in the light would suggest I'm probably right about silver chloride; any duller metallic bits, I think are the tin.

From your username, are you in the states? Did you find this piece in Austria, or get it from there?
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


Offline Watcherinla

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 5
  • I'm new, please be gentle
    • Auction finds
    • Canada
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #16 on: December 17, 2012, 09:03:46 PM »
Sue.   I don't have the vase with me but I'm going to borrow a better camera and get some closeup pictures and try and shine a light through it.   There are swirls of blue and yellow in it that do not show up on the posted photos.    I'm in Canada.   So I'm going to try in the next couple of days to get those pictures read.   

I want to thank everyone on the message board for their kind input.   This is a great help.

Support the Glass Message Board by finding a book via book-seek.com


Offline chopin-liszt

  • Members
  • **
  • Posts: 14451
    • Scotland, Europe.
Re: Identifying glass vase from Austria
« Reply #17 on: December 18, 2012, 11:51:25 AM »
You've got a very interesting piece there!
Thanks for sharing it with us.  :)
I do hope we'll get a bit further with it.
Cheers, Sue M. (she/her)

‘For every problem there is a solution: neat, plausible and wrong’. H.L.Mencken

Support the Glass Message Board by finding glass through glass-seek.com


 

SMF spam blocked by CleanTalk
Visit the Glass Encyclopedia
link to glass encyclopedia
Visit the Online Glass Museum
link to glass museum


This website is provided by Angela Bowey, PO Box 113, Paihia 0247, New Zealand