Topic: Lustre vase - Austrian - but who?

[Anne E.B.]

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7805
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7804

Any info on this little beauty would be much appreciated.  It stands 4" high and has a polished pontil mark - lots of wear on the base so presumably fairly old.  It has a bronze iridescence/lustre to it which doesn't show on the pic.  I don't know anything about this type of glass and I'm guessing that it's Austrian (? Loetz). 

TIA

[Ivo]

Oberglas (Tiroler Glashütte, Kramsach) would be my first guess - but still looking for good information on their actual produce.

[Anne E.B.]

Thank you for your help Ivo   Much appreciated.

[pwayne]

Looks like a Loetz vase in their Glatt finish and the drops down the side are called Tropen a typical Loetz form and finish from around 1898 and into the 1900s. You said it looks more bronze in the flesh as it were, but with the bass glass colour being green it makes it a Creta Glatt vase as Loetz would haved called it. I had a Bronce Glatt version i passed on a few years ago very similar to yours, and they were thought to be mostly made by Loetz for Max Emmanual in London. Hope this helps Pwayne.

[Anne E.B.]

Thank you Pwayne - great information   The bronze sheen is more noticeable on the drops (Tropen).  Was Max Emmanuel a retailer?

[pwayne]

Emanuel & Co, Max
London, England (c 1900)
Importer and retailer of art glass, notably commissioned a large range of products from the Loetz glassworks. Pasted from the Great Glass website on manufactures. Cheers Pwayne.