Topic: "Fat Lava" type glass vase? with partial label - ID = Royal Artglass, Welz, Cz

[antiquerose123]

Hi there, Please excuse the title -- but that is exactly what I have to say about this....
Mod: subject/title amended to something more meaningful that Search will find.


Today I went to the Thrift store to look around.  I picked this up because I thought it was a pottery piece, at least from the angle I was looking at it. Then when I looked at it again, I thought it was half pottery (top) and bottom glass.  Then I looked closer and the whole thing is Glass.  Man, did it look like pottery sitting on the shelf there - Honest !! I then noticed that the partial label shows something, then Glass.  That part I can make.  Anyone have an idea on this?  Is this considered Splatter glass, or end of Day glass?  Can anyone figure out what the label may be, or says?  

It is about 4 inches high, and 4.5 inches wide.  The top opening is about 2 inches wide, while the bottom is base is 2.5 inches wide.  There are also some *sparkles* in the Green section.

I have No clue about this, and honestly, I thought it was ceramic first -- then when I looked at the bottom I thought it was half ceramic and glass.  The lighting was not that bright in that old building.  Sure when you get it home and it the sunlight you can see the glass shine (and plus I gave it a wash too).  But when you look at that very first pic I posted here -- doesn't it almost look ceramic? There is some wear on the base -- so old?

....or is it just me (?)  Help....Any ideas, or clues on this?  

Thanks in advance

[antiquerose123]

** Another label shot.....in case I cropped that other one too much, and it is blurry..

[obscurities]

Hello, I believe the label, if I am seeing it right, is the remnant of a label which would have read "Royal Artglass". It appears the last two letters on the top line are AL with the upper right portion of a Y there also....
Maybe you can confirm that.

If that is the case, the label, as far as my research has indicated, was used post WWI. Although I can not confirm it yet, my strong belief is that it is a label that may have been used by Franz Welz.  I have seen it on a hand full of pieces I believe to be Welz decors. I believe it may have been used on pieces exported to the North American market.... 

With or without a confirmation as to the house that produced it, it indicates that what you have is a piece of Czech glass ca. 1920 or so.  Nice find....

I am attaching two label images, and also a similar decor on a different piece.... The last image is the version of the Royal Artglass label, most probably the one your piece has, as I believe it to be embossed and not just printed.

Craig

[antiquerose123]

Wow - Thank you.  I believe you are right.   :hiclp: :hiclp:

The *A* in the first line of mine is just above the *GL* in which is the exact way it is on yours too.  I thought it looked a *AL* in the first word of what I could see of it.  I think you have hit the nail on the head here.  Mine also has some green colored sparkles in it (I have deleted already all the extra pics I had taken).  It only cost me $3.99.  I had to take it when it had a partial label on it and because I first thought it was a piece of pottery since it was a bit dusty and dirty from the store.  I thought also that it might be older Chinese.  I wonder how many people walked by this *little Gem* also thinking it was just a piece of pottery, or ugly, or something.

I am sure glad I got it.  Yeah, Nice find for a old blind bat..... :24: Well, not really but I sure had it up to my eye with my specks pulled down looking at it.  I even pointed this out to the cashier there - that I thought it was a piece of pottery.  I only noticed it when I walked down the isle a second time.  It never caught my eye going down the idle the first time.

Thank you very much obscurities.  I thought this was going to end up unsolved.

 :thup:

[chopin-liszt]

 :clap:

Fabby find, Rose, well done :thup:  - I have to say, it does look like pottery - very collectable West German "Fat Lava" pottery, to be precise! Thanks too, to Craig, for such a good id!

[obscurities]

Would it be OK with you if I copied your images for use on a website which is under construction, or, can you email me some larger pics directly from the email icon ?....

Thanks, Craig

[Lustrousstone]

Someone seems to have got her eye in for "good" glass all of a sudden. Very nice and with green aventurine!!!

[dirk.]

Great piece, Rose, really like it! And it just reminded me of an update I´ll have to do... 

[antiquerose123]

Would it be OK with you if I copied your images for use on a website which is under construction, or, can you email me some larger pics directly from the email icon ?....

Thanks, Craig

Hi Craig -

I would be honored.  :kissy:

You can use this photos if you want to for now -- as I might take some more that are larger, and I am going to take some with both a white/Black background.  Then I can e-mail those to you later....

Please keep us (and Me) updated to the link to your website under construction, and when we can view it.  Also, a photo credit is needed to be in place I guess.

Thank you for asking me. 

I am  by the little unknown Dusty piece that I found.  I feel bad *swearing* at it....LOL.....saying what the *H* is this...

[obscurities]

If you could please email me your name and city / province so I can credit you as an image contributor.  The site will likely go public near the end of this year, and I will certainly make an announcement on the board when it does. When you contact me using the email icon I will also log your email address and send you an email when the site goes live...

Thanks, Craig