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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 04, 2025, 10:51:00 PM »
forget my question on whether the picture is a photo or a watercolour.  It's a photo. Wish I could see more of the page!
m
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 04, 2025, 09:34:25 PM »
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Equally I can't find any info about him making glass.  I can find info about glass he's enamelled and references to him being a designer.
There is for example this signed enamelled piece - I've seen that same picture of the women and water on another differently shaped clear vase, shaped like an old fashioned oil lamp shade bulbous at thebottom with a straight upright neck, in a museum collection:
https://www.bohemianglass.org/katalog/vaza-4-akty-2688/detail/

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The vase I saw is in the Waldmuseum Zwiesel - see info and pic of it here (you'll need to scroll down through the various pieces - it's clear glass enamelled with women pouring water. I think they date it to 1928:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://glastage.zwiesel.de/media/user_upload/Ausgewaehlte_Exponate_Waldmuseum_komprimiert_klein.pdf
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 04, 2025, 09:05:02 PM »
Thanks for adding that link. I read that a few days ago but didn't link it as there was no mention of Erwin Pfohl when that was written in 2010.
There is family information from the Pfohls online and that confirms Erwin was at Josephinenhutte after Alexander Pfohl left.  But there is very little information on him even though, if I understand correctly, he took over his family glass business and didn't die until 1975.
see here - you can cut and paste the information into google translate - it has quite a lot of info on Erwin Pfohl and states that in 1929 he was a designer for Josephinenhutte.  There is no mention of him being there any longer than 1929 but that might be because the only source reference they have is a start date,then his further employment with Reich, so nothing definitive to state how long he stayed as designer at Josephinenhutte:
https://www.pfohl-glaeser.com/familientradition


Much other information does come back to the book however the confirmation find of the photograph by Dr Arthur Traube is a key I think.  I also wonder if the picture in the book is a watercolour rather than a photograph of a collection of pieces? I wasn't sure.  Either way, Stefania must have found it somewhere so that is another piece of confirmatory evidence.  Pictures are so much better than descriptive words when it comes to describing a piece of glass at least.
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and I believe this lamp base belongs to the same maker too:

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=38037.0;attach=233843;image

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,38037.msg386989.html#msg386989


The Bohemian Glass.org site has the blue and white netted vase listed as Ernst Steinwald now.  For a while the site owner had it listed as Kralik or Steinwald.
 
This lamp I've just linked to and the vases and my lamp I've linked above I think are likely to all belong to the same maker. I am aware makers may have moved between factories however there are specific colour links in these pieces as well as dekors, so I wonder if that makes it more likely they come from one factory.

I posted about this a long while ago on another thread and still feel the same that these pieces are all linked to the same maker:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,38037.msg392521.html#msg392521
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by Greg. on July 04, 2025, 08:44:06 PM »
Thanks for adding the above info M, on my brief search I've also struggled to find out further info. The majority of references all seem to quote Stefania Żelasko.

On that note, just adding the below link for reference to an article written by Stefania Żelasko from 2010..

https://pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2010-2w-zelasko-jelenia-gora-jugendstil-2010-eng.pdf
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There are more vases on the Bohemian Glass.org site now listed under Gebruder Frankl.
Along with the cigarette advertising piece which seems to be the same spatter decor, there is another beehive shaped one which I think is a match for the rings and beehive of mine:
https://www.bohemianglass.org/katalog/vaza-bf-56-5305/detail/
Image link here
https://www.bohemianglass.org/image/preview/?image=1639861058_dsc05056.JPG&width=1000&height=700&exact=0
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Glass News / Dillon Clarke
« Last post by Greg. on July 04, 2025, 07:42:58 PM »
Very sad to hear that Dillon Clarke has sadly passed away, Dillon was a pioneer of the British Studio Glass Movement and subsequently went on to setup both Midsummer and Cambridge Glass.

https://dillon-clarke.muchloved.com/
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 04, 2025, 07:11:23 PM »
Nic mentions here Ikora starting in 1926 (I mentioned this vase on that thread):
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,70039.msg390242.html#msg390242

The sparse info I can find says Erwin Pfohl started at Josephinenhutte in 1929.  There is no end date.  The info from the book I think says he modernised the glassworks and introduced two ranges including Vineta-Kristall. So I don't know how long these were produced for. 
Equally I can't find any info about him making glass.  I can find info about glass he's enamelled and references to him being a designer.
There is for example this signed enamelled piece - I've seen that same picture of the women and water on another differently shaped clear vase, shaped like an old fashioned oil lamp shade bulbous at thebottom with a straight upright neck, in a museum collection:
https://www.bohemianglass.org/katalog/vaza-4-akty-2688/detail/

In all my years of searching I've only come across the Miller's one and the 'Schneider' marked vase that I thought were the same, until Steven pointed out that one on ebay.  All four including mine are variations on green and red. 

I can imagine they might have been misattributed when selling however I think they are quite unusual.
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There is another pic of the vase base here on Craig's post a few years ago -
It certainly meets the description of light rose with milky flux but I know to my cost that sometimes what the brain imagines is not the reality of the description :)

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,65583.msg399939.html#msg399939

There's something familiar about the foot and the way it's shaped and applied on all these pieces.  It's as if a mold was used to shape it and the method of applying seems to be the same on all pieces to me (big generalisation I know):
https://www.bohemianglass.org/image/preview/?image=1617559952_dsc03888a.JPG&width=1000&height=700&exact=0
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Glass / Re: st louise
« Last post by ian the sculptor on July 04, 2025, 04:06:48 PM »
Do you mean St Louis ?
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