Topic: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?

[azelismia]

I've seen this vase attributed to Loetz, Harrach and Legras online, none of these attributions seem one hundred percent sure of themselves though. I've seen enough of this line to think it wasn't a complete rarity. Someone must know who made it!



http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/thefiresidecat/vaselilypad.jpg

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/thefiresidecat/P1020274.jpg

[Galle]

Allow me to add Josephinenhütte to the list of suspects...  :huh:

[azelismia]

Didn't mean to leave it out but I couldn't remember how to spell it

[azelismia]

actually what made me think to post it here was that Mike has a piece on his website labeled Legras that is aventurine. it's got a bolder enamel but still, I hadn't seen a legras example of aventurine before.

http://www.manddmoir.co.uk/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/moir?opendocument&part=4

[Ivo]

FWIW green aventurine was and is a speciality from Reichenbach http://www.farbglas.de/ (note the fabulous colour chart on their website!) and few other glassworks have made it. Legras used green aventurine as a basis for low temperature enameling and gilding for certain, as did Harrach'sche probably - and various works in the Bavarian forest. Reichenbach supplied glass specialities worldwide - but Legras is a high probability.

[azelismia]

neat site Ivo. I hadn't seen that before. but it looks like their color chart is all the stuff they're putting out now so you can't really use it for historical purposes can you?

[Ivo]

at least you can use it for standard reference.