Topic: Easter riddle - guess the maker!

[keith]

Cadbury's?,well...I'm not very good with pwt's,

[dirk.]

Thanks for all your responses!
Seems you´ll need a final clue. I must admit this really is a hard task! I´ve searched this board
and only found very few mentions of this glassworks.
It was located less than 100km from where I live now. I´ve bought that vase from a daughter
of one of the workers there. Although the label´s fallen off, she assured me it had been in it´s
place until last year and there´s absolutely no doubt about the attribution. I´ve asked three
times to be absolutely sure.

[antiquerose123]

No clue -- Hungarian?  or Chinese?   :24:

Have you posted in before in PW - should we go through everything there to find an answer (?) then the joke would be on us..

[antiquerose123]

Thanks for all your responses!
Seems you´ll need a final clue. I must admit this really is a hard task! I´ve searched this board
and only found very few mentions of this glassworks.
It was located less than 100km from where I live now. I´ve bought that vase from a daughter
of one of the workers there. Although the label´s fallen off, she assured me it had been in it´s
place until last year and there´s absolutely no doubt about the attribution. I´ve asked three
times to be absolutely sure.

Using Google Map here ---- Gütersloh ?  Rietberg ?  Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock?  Steinhagen?  Rheda-Wiedenbrück ??

If I were to guess ONE - I say:  Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock.....It would be :24: if I was in the right area since I am from Canada and do not have a clue of the area at all...

 :24:

[dirk.]

Close, Rose...    (try google earth, I´ll wait by the window to wave at you)

The answer is: Richard Süssmuth / Immenhausen. Mainly known for their stemware and
thin-walled glass, vases and decanters. Unfortunately I can´t give you a date for this
vase... One thing I´ve learned here is: The answer is out there! Let´s see how long it
will take to find it!

Thanks for all of your contribution!

[langhaugh]

Dirk:

Thank goodness I read this thread after the solution had been given. I have a Richard Süssmuth vase and I would have never have guessed from that, as it's quite a fine, engraved piece. Would it be the same time period as Perlora?

David

[dirk.]

Hi David,
hard to tell without a picture and a bit out of my comfort zone, too. How do you know it´s a
Süssmuth piece, is it labelled?
Richard Süssmuth already ran a glassworks in Penzig / Silesia, before he moved to Immenhausen
in 1945. Does the engraving  or the glass have an Art Déco look?

[langhaugh]

Dirk:

Yes, it does have an Art Deco look. The vase is pictured on p. 229 of Helmut Ricke 'Glass Art,' where it is described as "smoky brown glass, mold-blown. Base and rim ground. Decoration in polished miter cut: six stylized sea gulls above double wavy line." It was made by Glashütte Richard Süssmuth. I'm not a big Art Deco collector, but I like this piece and so have been looking for more Süssmuth, without much luck. So thanks for the original post. I've taken a quick and dirty picture of the piece, which I'll attach FYI.

David

[dirk.]

What a lovely piece! I like those really stylised and reduced cuts. Thanks for sharing!
Does the Ricke book give a concrete date?
There´s another great piece on ebay at the moment:
here
I´ve only got one further Süssmuth piece and it´s a rather unspectacular mould-blown
vase from around 1960. (I´ll have to rummage... )

[langhaugh]

Dirk:

Glad you like it, as I certainly liked your piece. The Ricke book dates the form to 1936-7 and the decoration to 1928.

David