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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: Anik R on February 20, 2011, 09:33:55 AM
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I'm feeling very happy... this morning, I picked up my 40th piece of Czech glass for my collection -- an attractive Skrdlovice bowl with a partial label. ;D
It is 10cm high and 21cm wide. Though I've taken a look at other Skrdlovice bowls, I'm having some trouble matching the design with anything I see. (I thought it was Bohuslav Beranek, 5352, but now I think I'm mistaken.) I would greatly appreciate some help.
Thank you!
P.S. This morning, I also picked up Czech glass piece number 38 and 39 (a pink ZBS Miloslav Janku fish with label, and a pink ZBS 'earred' vase with label). I was terribly excited with my finds until I came home and had to contend with my what-are-we-going-to-do-with-all-this-glass-junk-you-keep-bringing-home?! husband.
:thud: Some people know how to bust up a girl's fun and excitement.
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A picture of the label...
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ohhh can i see the fishy, jon collects glass fish
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Hi Anik, nice buy!
These kind of bowls can be tricky to attribute. The Beraneks made many similar patterns to each other. Reading a copy of a circa 1954 Skrdlovice catalogue, I noticed there is a bowl looking like this is in it. So it looks to me most like an Emanuel Beranek bowl, PN 5154/2, the photo match is good and the dimensions (as importantly are within 2cm). The /2 denotes an alternative size...
I have never seen the label before and it must have been a very short-lived factory label. A really nice piece!
Robert (bOBA)
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Thank you, Robert! So I was mistaken once again. I really don't know how you manage to do it... I look at a piece, find some images which 'could' be the piece I have, then my brain and eyes go all stupid -- nothing looks the same one minute, then everything looks the same the next.
:ho:
I do wish I had at least a quarter of your talent.
At least it's a good bowl, in lovely condition, and with a rather scarce label... I think I've done pretty good for myself today. ;D
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A small edition to my initial post: I wrote 'Bohuslav Beranek', but I meant to write Jan Broz, who was the designer of the 5352 jardiniere.
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Just to clarify, perhaps (?). A few similar designs of this bowl were designed at Skrdlovice at this time. After some discussions, it is thought that this bowl most closely resembles a bowl that is featured in a 1954 catalogue, one designed by Bohuslav Beranek, PN 5070.
Also I have to say, this new Bohemian-Czech glass department at GMB is rather good, well done mods etc...
Robert (bOBA)
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Thank you, Robert :kissy:.
And I also like the new Czech & Bohemia glass sub-forum found on the main page. :)
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Czech & Bohemia has been promoted to full forum now Anik... it's all grown up! :)
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Czech & Bohemia has been promoted to full forum now Anik... it's all grown up! :)
Of course it has, Anne... I was just checking if you were paying attention. ;)
(I obviously wasn't using all my brain cells whilst typing -- I know Czech glass has got its own forum now, hence the/my excitement... why I wrote 'sub-', I haven't a clue. :-\ :))
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:kissy: I do things like that too Anik, all the time! :-[ ;D
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Great Anik!
Not very rare piece in fact, but the label is absolutely unknown to me. Must be very old. I will try to find more about it.
I am also very pleased that Czech/Czechoslovakian/Bohemian glass has at GMB own section.
I know from collegues that GMB is read and checked by many Czech glass collectors but only few of them has such impudence to put their responses in bad English like I use to do.
Jindrich
www.cs-sklo.cz