Topic: Sklo? Tchecoslovaquie vase

[Max]

I am selling some of the glass I've collected, so this vase is going on ebay along with some other stuff.  This vase is definitely Czech (it says Tchecoslovaquie on the bottom  )...any idea of a designer please? 

[Jindra8526]

Max,
this piece is modification of Libochovice 3032 - see Marcus Sklo Union database. After pressing when piece was still plastic glassmaster has "opened" the shape with pucellas. The designer is for the moment unknown to me.

(btw. take a look at 13066 in Sklo Union database, here you will se example of "closed" shape - after pressing post forming. It was game of glassmasters, designer had not influence to this creativity.)

Jindrich

[Max]

That's really interesting Jindrich.  I was actually looking at this vase and wondering about the top - and now you've explained it.    :thup:

I guess it made things more interesting for the glassmakers if they could alter the design slightly.  Making vases in moulds must have been a bit boring after vase number 5,000, each one exactly the same.   

Thanks again. x

[Glen]

Here are three pressed vases; altered and shaped by hand, for a touch of variety! (Maker, Eda Glasbruk, Sweden, circa late 1920s).

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



Glen

[Max]

   It's amazing how different it makes them look Glen.  There's obviously a real skill in altering the neck and still making a successful design.   :thup: