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Title: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on May 18, 2013, 10:56:23 AM
I am very happy with my new addition to my Czech (non-Skrdlovice) collection:

Vladimir Mika vase for Karlovarske Sklo / Moser from the 1960s, appr. 18 cm high and wide, weight around 3 kg; beautiful colourway.
Remains of the Moser label still attached.
Bought today at the Naschmarkt fleamarket...

These seem to be not so easy to find, and usually sellers ask incredible sums for them :o (or try to sell them as Flavio Poli designs)

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 18, 2013, 02:33:17 PM
Stunning!
How is the effect in the centre achieved.... I can't work it out!
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on May 18, 2013, 03:10:06 PM
Thank you, Sue.
Difficult to describe - the interior sides are "connected" in the middle, leaving just a narrow U-shaped well...
Cannot be felt at the outside, which is totally flat.
Not so easy to achieve now that I come to think of it. ;)

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: chopin-liszt on May 18, 2013, 03:35:16 PM
No, not easy to achieve - and now I understand it, thanks.

I'm even more impressed than I thought I was!  ;D
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: bOBA on May 18, 2013, 07:16:04 PM
Nice vase Michael. A modern classic really. As you probably know, there is a good article on Mika on J's website. He was managing director of Mstisov I think. He was there when the Romana and Rhapsody designs were being made and there is a painting of his showing these patterns being blown, shaped etc... He is a bit unfairly overlooked possibly. He is still alive too, as far as I know. I think there is an old thread on GMB where the jardiniere-bowl version of this piece is discussed with mixed opinions re. attribution, when knowledge of these designers was not what it is now. It would be interesting to see if Moser accept this as a design of theirs..... "Karlovarkse Sklo" output being accepted as "Moser" today seems slightly unpredictable.......

either way, a really striking piece,

Robert


 
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on May 18, 2013, 07:45:30 PM
Thank you, Robert!
I did search for Vladimir Mika on the board before I posted, but only found the one thread about the multicolor striped vase with your link to the Czech article you mentioned, nothing from this range...

In CGR I saw that the vase is one time referred to as designed by Mika, and another time the jardiniere as designed by Oldrich Lipa (which is a mistake I guess).

This is my second Karlovarske piece with a Moser label, so I have no problem with calling these Moser production ;D

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: Anik R on May 19, 2013, 09:54:57 AM
Absolutely beautiful, Michael.  Super, super, super find!
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on May 19, 2013, 09:59:58 AM
Thank you, Anik! :-*

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: langhaugh on May 21, 2013, 01:53:25 AM
Gorgeous piece , Michael, the best Mika piece I've seen. 

Would Moser accept it as their production? Yes and no. They accepted my Mika was made there. Then about 18 months later flatly denied that a similar piece was made there. I had encouraged the owner to send the request to convince him it was Karlovarske Sklo.  Not a successful ploy. He was also told that a genuine Moser piece is always marked Moser on the bottom.

Fabulous find.

David

Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: dirk. on May 21, 2013, 07:33:42 AM
Wow - you keep finding great stuff there on the Naschmarkt.  :o
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on May 21, 2013, 11:12:32 AM
Thanks guys!

@David: Yes, really quite confusing with these Karlovarske production pieces (see also the e-mail I got from Moser regarding my tall Lipa vase >> Link (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,46620.msg262661.html#msg262661)).
But as they have used Moser labels on their pieces 40 years ago to promote them it is not very logical to deny it now....
Another interesting issue are the threaded Suhajek pieces from the 1970s; they usually come unmarked, but I have seen one bowl from that range with an etched mark to the base -- so according to their concept this one is Moser production, while the others are Karlovarske Sklo ???

@Dirk: Naschmarkt fleamarket is great! ;D
My number one source, almost half of my collection is from there, and some of the best pieces, too (though I had a dry spell in March/April this year).
And it is totally crazy to go there a second time at about 6 pm when it is almost at the end -- everything is on the ground, and hundreds of hysterical people hunting for the last bargain, or waiting for a pile of old clothes to be abandoned by the seller so they can grab something for free...

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on September 14, 2013, 03:34:23 PM
One more great Mika piece for my collection -- the matching jardiniere :D
24 cm wide, at a weight of around 3.5 kg...

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: chopin-liszt on September 14, 2013, 03:39:59 PM
Wow - with that, you can give up your television - no need for it any more!  ;D
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: dirk. on September 15, 2013, 12:06:02 PM
Lovely, Michael!  :)
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on September 15, 2013, 12:10:19 PM
Thanks both! - These Mika vases photograph so well...

And Sue is perfectly right that I tend to look more at the vase than at my telly at the moment ;)

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: Anik R on September 15, 2013, 05:27:51 PM
Oh Michael, that is beautiful!  Lucky fellow!!!
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on September 16, 2013, 08:27:29 AM
Thank you, Anik!  :-*
They do look very nice together.

Michael
Title: Re: Vladimir Mika vase for Moser
Post by: rocco on April 02, 2022, 08:23:28 PM
Another one, less often seen colourway of darkgrey and blue.

Michael