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Author Topic: is it agatin opal glas? it's not opaline, it's not clear, it's probably Buquoy  (Read 2151 times)

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this is a photo of the Joh. Cassel, Wien perfume lamp shown in the book Farbenglas 1 (Neuwirth)

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/glass-fragrance-lamp-in-engraved-alabaster-high-res-stock-photography/159625168

There are similarities with my little blue bottle in the neck design and shape, the petal cut foot and also the merese that forms under the curved panel cut body, which is similar to the design of the lamp cup.

The design of the perfume bottle on the right in clear glass appears to show how the bottles would have a wick  to work as a perfume lamp.

In the book the one on the left, the white alabaster lamp, has a clear glass insert with a ridge on it so it sits on the rim of the bottle and a small clear glass presumably hollow tube, along with a wick.  I presume the clear glass tube is threaded through the wick and the whole thing sits inside the clear glass insert with the tube enabling the perfume to be drawn up into the wick (or some idea similar).

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The book says on page 275 'It is fairly certain that Cassel did not make the glass himself, but merely used it for these lamps.'

My point being that it is possible my little piece might be a perfume lamp perhaps and also that there are similarities in design with the white one shown from Joh. Cassel.

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So far I have these links associating this piece with Buquoy glass and as being from the early 1800s:

Shape comparison:

1) ' I've just found a photo of the piece in the DBG band II - unfortunately it's been cut off at the foot but you can see the shoulder knop details. The two other pieces in the metal mounted stands are unfortunately not in this photograph but they are identical cutting to my piece.'

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MsOYTBXCHhY/TXnP76Z-oXI/AAAAAAAAB-8/RNE14sI6Lzs/s1600/100_7486.jpg

It's the piece on the very bottom left of this photograph.'



Shape comparison:

2) ' this is a photo of the Joh. Cassel, Wien perfume lamp shown in the book Farbenglas 1 (Neuwirth)

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/photo/glass-fragrance-lamp-in-engraved-alabaster-high-res-stock-photography/159625168

There are similarities with my little blue bottle in the neck design and shape, the petal cut foot and also the merese that forms under the curved panel cut body, which is similar to the design of the lamp cup.

The design of the perfume bottle on the right in clear glass appears to show how the bottles would ave a wick  to work as a perfume lamp.




Shape and date comparison:

3) In the meantime, I also came across these Riedel pieces from Franz Xaver Riedel 1786-1844 on their site and the little bottle on the left has the same type of neck, so presumably it was 'typical' of that time:
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=61460.0;attach=183571;image
http://www.riedel.com/history/generations/franz-xaver-riedel-5th/




To add to this, I received a new book today 'Farbenglas . II', Dr. Walthraud Neuwirth, 1998

- Colour and date comparison:

4)   i) Page 74 and 75 pictures three items in 'sapphire blue glass'.  I am pretty certain that the colour of my bottle is the same as what is pictured, i.e. my bottle is  'sapphire blue glass'.

They are all dated as 'before 1837'.  They came to the Technisches Museum Wien from two different sources.  One source is just listed as ‘… (Inventory: ‘from  Annaberg, Bohemia’).



So, I think this confirms:

- the colour as ‘sapphire blue’ and 
- the date as possibly ‘before 1837’



And furthermore, there is confirmation that Buquoy made sapphire blue glass.

ii) On page 73 there is confirmation of Buquoy showing sapphire blue glass at exhibitions:

‘Buquoy in Silberberg and Georgenthal showed objects in Vienna in 1835 in  “cornflower=,turquoise= and sapphire blue glass” (Neuwirth, Color in Glass I, 1993, p. 14), and of ….’

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