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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 01:16:09 PM

Title: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase - ID = Kralik
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 01:16:09 PM
Has to be 1920/30s Czech, but who? Picked up a fleamarket today. I love it. It's 7 inches tall and has a ground irregular pontil mark.
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: keith on October 16, 2010, 01:54:36 PM
Veeerrry nice,Kralik,Welz maybe,where's Craig,will search around.
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: keith on October 16, 2010, 02:02:23 PM
I'd say Welz by the shape,Craig will no doubt correct me if wrong :-[
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: dirk. on October 16, 2010, 03:47:31 PM
Ooooh, that´s simply gorgeous! I´m absolutely  :mrgreen:. Hand it over!!!
http://picasaweb.google.com/jerichohair/KralikFlame#
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 03:58:14 PM
No  :P  ;D  Looks like you're right Dirk. http://lh3.ggpht.com/_G3rO2qQ2zds/SoOcVX9aWfI/AAAAAAAAApU/pcZ06XF8mhg/s512/Picture%20001.jpg
But none of them have such a wacky shape.  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: chopin-liszt on October 16, 2010, 04:07:43 PM
 :o :o :o

Or look nearly so much as if a poison arrow tree-frog has been splattered all over it..

it's fabulous, glorious and gorgeous, it would go with my socks...........    :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

You lucky, lucky beast! :kissy:
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: dirk. on October 16, 2010, 04:17:48 PM
The shape can be found with other decor:
http://picasaweb.google.com/jerichohair/KralikDraped#
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 05:03:44 PM
 ;D ;D
http://picasaweb.google.com/jerichohair/KralikDraped#5400139943559688626

Visitors will be searched before departure  ;)
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: obscurities on October 16, 2010, 05:24:53 PM
It is Kralik for sure, and a fabulous example....  A little different from any I have seen.....  I really really really like it!!

I am posting an image shown on the picassa links, as I have the entire library on CD, and the owners permission to use them on the internet.  I would mention that although some of the libraries he has posted on line are correctly attributed, some are not and should not always be taken as accurate. This particular group are all correct.

The decor has been classified as "Seaweed", and will appear as such on our website.  Examples in a uranium ground are quite unusual. I am attaching the other example from Picasa in the same decor, which is a shape that is a marker for Kralik production.  Your example has a little different decor at the foot which I have not seen before.

I am also attaching an image of several Kralik Milifiori and the shape is the same.... The pink canes are a Kralik marker in Czech production. So we can link this piece though both decor and shape.....

Keith, Both Kralik and Welz are now known to have made what many people call "knuckle" or "face" vases..... there are subtleties in the different shapes they made, and I am finding that in some cases, decor is the key to attribution..... Kralik made more of the pieces in this shape family..... but Welz seems to have made a surprising number also....  many that in the past have been attributed to Kralik that are not....

And as usual, Christine, may I use your images??

Craig
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Paul S. on October 16, 2010, 05:40:49 PM
Congratulations Christine  :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  is it possible for you to show us the 'glow'. :)
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 07:09:19 PM
Oohh you are demanding Paul!!

Yes of course Craig
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Paul S. on October 16, 2010, 07:11:27 PM
sorry, wrong boyfriend Christine ;)
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: obscurities on October 16, 2010, 09:08:38 PM
I thought, since Welz had been mentioned here, relative to shape, that I would post a selection of images of Welz pieces in the similar family of shapes... "face" or "knuckle" vases. At least two of these had Welz labels on them. I have linked all of these pieces to Welz production, either through decor or shape...... or both...

Craig
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 16, 2010, 09:23:49 PM
Nice
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: keith on October 16, 2010, 11:42:11 PM
The more I look at this stuff the more I wonder what these glass makers were smoking! :o
Title: Re: Wacky Czech vaseline crackle vase
Post by: obscurities on October 17, 2010, 12:20:12 AM
I don't know.... but I like it!!! 

Some of the work was, in so many ways, ahead of it's time.  Many of the pieces of Czech glass I have were decades early regarding shapes, decors and color combinations....  It is probably one of the things that fascinates me so much about the glass of that period.....  I have pieces of Czech glass that look like they could have been produced yesterday.... and in many cases they are over 100 years old, and most are at least 80 years old......  To me that is so very cool.... timeless....  The genius of great vision and artistry in glass..... I personally think the Czechs, as a whole, did it better than anyone....  Wait until you see the stuff from Welz as a whole picture.... colors and decors that are really amazing..... artistically very unique..... especially as a group of work when you see it together.....

Craig