Topic: neodymium bowl - Is this Czech, help needed to identify please?

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I bought this bowl a while ago and thought it would be easy to identify  but having searched a while I haven't seen anything similar.
It was a lovely lavender colour when I saw it, and turns a  steel grey in the indoor lighting.
I thought it must be Czech and perhaps ZBS but I can't find anything so far.  My tape measure has gone walkabout but it is about 6" across and 3 " high approximately.  The base is polished flat and shiny
Any help would be much appreciated.

thanks
M

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polite bump 

I have continued to search for the maker of this bowl and have gone through the photos Jindrich posted of the exhibition.
I came across two pieces that I thought may have looked similar to mine   - any thoughts on whether I maybe on the right track or possible leads of where to go next would be much appreciated.
I have posted better (I hope) pics of my bowl.
With thanks
m
http://picasaweb.google.de/Jindra8526/MagicOfGlass#5424449041634411106
http://picasaweb.google.de/Jindra8526/MagicOfGlass#5424449058051514850

[Jindra8526]

It looks simmilar but I suppose it is not Skrdlovice - Rudolf Beranek piece exhibited at Magic of Glass (pattern 6245). Here are more photoes of Skrdlovice piece.

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Hi Jindrich
Thank you very much for looking at the post and replying   
And also the wonderful photos of the exhibition you have posted - the pieces are simply beautiful   I wish I owned some of those  :mrgreen:
I shall continue to look for other options on this bowl and see if I can find similar elsewhere.
I thought Czech because of some similarities to a vase I have and also to those two pictures. Do you think it may be a Czech piece if not Skrdlovice?

m

[Jindra8526]

I believe that piece is Czech and made in ZBS where neodymium colours had been used.

Jindrich

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Many thanks Jindrich.
 
I will continue to search on and off for ZBS.  I'm glad I might have been on the right track in the first place.  It makes me  feel I have learned something from all my reading

m

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Just bumping this and hoping that I might be able to get an id for it as time has gone on maybe 
Any help or thoughts much appreciated.
thank you
m

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I should have made it clear in my last post, I was wondering if anyone knew a reference for my bowl being Zelezny Brod Sklo.  I wasn't quite sure if Jindrich was giving a positive id or if those were his feeling on it if you see what I mean?
Many thanks for looking
m

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A polite bump 
I've still not managed to find a reference for this bowl from ZBS.  Now we are 4 years on I wondered if anyone had seen the same at anywhere for a design or pattern no please?
This is not an area that I know at all.
Thanks for looking.
m

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Hi m,
are your sure it is really Neodymium glass?
There is a Skrdlovice lavender/amethyst colour (like in these pieces >> Link 1, >> Link 2, >> Link 3) which has a tendency to look greyish-purple under fluorescents, but never bluish like the ZBS Neodymium pieces.

And (I don't see it properly) are there two colours in it?
Do you have a pic in daylight?

It does look far more Skrdlovice than ZBS.
Will have a look through the books later...

Michael