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Author Topic: Frantisek Zemek candle holder  (Read 2745 times)

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Offline rocco

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Frantisek Zemek candle holder
« on: May 03, 2013, 04:21:02 PM »
Nice Zemek candle holder found today (mistook it for Skrdlovice first due to the colours), 18 cm high.

It looks like a piece from the range shown at the Expo 1958 >> Link to CGR 1958/6
Seems to be the colour combination "amber - rosa" :)

According to a Sypka auction catalogue it was made at Borske Sklo, Novy Bor.

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Re: Frantisek Zemek candle holder
« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2013, 11:00:58 AM »
Great piece Rocco, I like these. They are not all that common, I see about one a year or less. There are other colourways too. I would have definitely suggested a Mstisov- Karlovarske Sklo attribution. Sypka is not always correct, do they reference CGR? The article does not seem specific.... the pattern numbers for it in CGR look Mstisov Karlovrske don't they? 

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Re: Frantisek Zemek candle holder
« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2013, 11:15:32 AM »
Thank you Robert!
I like that whole Zemek range shown in CGR 1958/6; as far as I can see there is no glassworks specified...

I would have thought Mstisov, too.

Wayne has pics of a Uranium green one in his encyclopedia >> Link
And of a fabulous vase, too.

The seller I bought it from had several very tempting pieces (Kotik propeller vase, Jelinek "Olympie" ashtray), but I decided to go for this one ;)

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Re: Frantisek Zemek candle holder
« Reply #3 on: March 28, 2015, 09:53:06 PM »
These Zemek pieces for the Bruxelles World Fair are really not easy to come by.
So I am very happy about finding this beautiful vase, featured in CGR 1958/6 >> Link to Jindrich's site.
PN 53109/30cm.

Michael

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Re: Frantisek Zemek candle holder
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2015, 05:47:56 PM »
Oh Michael, you find the best pieces!   Super :)

 

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