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Title: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on March 17, 2012, 07:31:11 AM

Wow, I am glad that the board is back  :)

I found this beautiful vase last week, and I would think it was made at Cesky Crystal -- Chlum u Trebone.
Colours are identical to pieces from Jan Gabrhel and Pavel Hlava from the seventies, but I couldn't find the shape anywhere...
 
30 cm high, polished and bevelled rim, heat sensitive glass I guess.

Michael

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on March 19, 2012, 08:05:03 PM

Still not found a match for my vase ???

I was thinking of this Hlava piece (http://image.artfact.com/housePhotos/Fischer/37/243537/H0485-L10782683.jpg?h=3DA7C7436923A993018A7CDAFA23254C&cn=AFTOKEN-PROD) and the one in Mark Hill's book which have identical colours, or the Jan Gabrhel vases in similar colourways and with rings here (http://www.czechdesign.cz/foto.php?lang=1%20-%2029k%20-&status=obr&c=1299&o=8776) and here (http://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/Glasrevue19804?authkey=Gv1sRgCNHyzeat86CYGA#5447780862134785490)...

edit: or am I completely off the track and the colours and style were used by other makers (and in other countries) as well?

Any input very much appreciated!
Thanks,
Michael

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: Anik R on March 19, 2012, 09:55:29 PM

Hi Michael... I do see how you feel this piece is Czech.  I've searched a little myself, but haven't come up with anything useful or helpful.  (But at least you know you aren't being ignored.)

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on March 20, 2012, 09:31:49 AM

Thanks a lot for looking into this, Anik!

I don't have much doubt that the vase is Czech and from Cesky Kristal -- Chlum u Trebone...
Still a designer name or reference would be great :)

I will have to browse all CGR issues from the 1980s and 90s I guess and see if I can find something.
Pity that Jindrich isn't around much any more -- he might know at once...

Michael

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: Anik R on March 20, 2012, 01:22:41 PM

I didn't see your piece in the CGR.  Perhaps you could try contacting Jindrich through his website?  :)

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on March 22, 2012, 07:15:48 AM

Thanks Anik!
I could write to Jindrich, but I always hesitate to bother people via e-mail...
I noticed he was around, so he obviously doesn't have time to contribute.

He has given us incredible resources to do our own research, anyway.

Meanwhile I am quite contented with my Chlum attribution :)

Michael

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on February 20, 2022, 02:01:54 PM

A while back I found another (smaller) one of these vases, this time with an interesting label reading:
"Včelnička, Rückl & Sons"

I am still not much wiser as to designer of these vases, but I read somewhere (can't remember where) that there was a connection to Chlum u Třeboně glassworks who produced the similar Gabrhel pieces.

And the famous Pavel Hlava pieces with punctures in heat sensitive glass seem to have been produced at Vcelnicka as well >> http://www.czechglassguide.cz/Vcelnicka-Vase-d7675.htm (http://www.czechglassguide.cz/Vcelnicka-Vase-d7675.htm)

I attach a pic of my small collection of Czech heat sensitive glass showing both vases...

Michael

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: flying free on February 20, 2022, 10:51:25 PM

Very sculptural as group and great colour combination.

Is the colour gradation due to it being heat sensitive glass and having been reheated, a bit like Webb's Alexandrite?

m

Title: Re: Blue-green-red vase, heat sensitive glass (?), Chlum u Trebone?
Post by: rocco on February 21, 2022, 07:14:31 AM

Yes exactly.
That effect can be seen very well in the Hlava pieces with punctures...

Michael