Topic: Art Deco Pressed Cloud Glass Bowl

[robbo]

Hi,

I wondered if anyone could ID this bowl.

The base glass is a transparent (non-uranium) lime green, with white trails. It doesn't seem to fit with any of the makers from the Cloud Glass web-site.

The base-rim is ground and polished.

Dimensions: Length, handle to handle, 33cm; depth 15cm; height 9cm.

TIA,

Robbo

[Bernard C]

Robbo — Can't help with attribution, but I would have described it as a green malachite rather than a cloud colour.

Bernard C. 

[robbo]

Hi Bernard, many thanks for your reply.

I must admit I had difficulty in deciding the best way to describe the effect. It's certainly seems unlike the cloud glass produced by Davidson, Walther, Reich etc. Maybe I should have described it as "cloudy" rather than "Cloud".

It's also different to the opaque glass I usually associate with malachite in that it is semi-transparent. Having said that, there are parts, especially the base and handles, which do look opaque. Possibly that's due to the thickness or that the colours have been mixed together more by the pressing process?

I'll try to take a photo which better shows the transparency.

Robbo

[Glen]

Seems to be close to this example I have. It's puzzled me for a few years. I know this pattern (Elektra) was made by Brockwitz and Riihimaki - could your piece be Brockwitz? I'll trawl through the catalogues.....

EDITED TO ADD....or maybe even Walther?

http://www.geocities.com/carni_glass_uk_2000/Elektra.html

Glen

[Lustrousstone]

It reminds me of Akro Agate from the US

[robbo]

Hi Glen - many thanks for posting the link to your Elektra bowl - the type of glass certainly looks very similar, transparent green with opaque white trails (and a ground base rim too ) Until seeing that, all the green slag and malachite I've seen has been opaque, hence my confusion about calling it cloud glass.

The only thing I've found in terms of shape is a circular Stölzle bowl on Pamela's site, eight sided with a similar arrangement of handles but on the whole different enough to probably be unrelated, see http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/02776.html

Christine - definitely some similarity to Akro Agate too.

Many thanks for your help.

Robbo