Topic: Amber etched glass centrepiece thoughts.

[brucebanner]

I do not buy amber glass as a rule but this is good quality and hand blown with a lead glass ring and polished pontil, any thought's.


11 1/2 inches in diameter.

Regards Chris.

[Anne Tique]

It's Czech, but that's all I can say.

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,62531.0.html

[brucebanner]

Thanks for that, it has been used to hold flowers as there are several tide marks to the outer rim surface, i'm wondering a flower frog or figure with similar decoration may be? floating candle may be.

[Paul S.]

it looks similar to what is often called a 'float bowl' - although I think most of those had a centre piece of some sort  -  frog or figurine probably, but not a candle I don't think.
Try the Board's search for float bowl and you'll get an idea of what they look like and if this one is possibly the same.

Getting brain into gear now......    I get the feeling we've had pieces with this sort of acid cut back before  -  I forget now the name given to the process.   If I have the right idea, then I think sometimes the non-relief areas are coloured?      But then I could be way off course.

think I'm wrong with that suggestion - confusing this piece with something else unrelated I'm sure.

[brucebanner]

Float bowl, thanks Paul.

[Paul S.]

I was too hasty and didn't see that Anne had linked to a similarly decorated piece  -  so it does appear to be an acid process  -  sorry but I've not a clue as to provenance though.

just so that folks don't think I'm going entirely round the bend  -  this link shows what I had in mind, although the linked item has nothing specific to do with this amber bowl, other than that the process of producing the decoration is PROBABLY the same........          http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,48682.msg274376.html#msg274376

originally, the word 'oroplastic' was used for an acid cut back process similar to this, by factories like Moser and Loetz, and it's used often in the form of a frieze - as it is here - BUT, I've a feeling that to qualify the decoration needs to be gilded.