Topic: Could somebody please help me in identifying this piece of art glass? Czech?

[philo407]

Sorry for the caps, it is a cut and paste situation.  I acquired this piece in Orlando, Florida at an antique store. This item is clear glass with an irridescent finish that shows purple, green, gold, yellow, orange and blue. The hollow part of the vase is tear drop shaped and dark blue in color.  The vase stands 9 1/2 inches with a width of width of 4" at it's widest point.  There is a blue swirl in the interior of the glass that starts 3" from the top and swirls down to the base.   The vase weighs 2 lbs. 5 oz.

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[chopin-liszt]

Hi, and welcome to the gmb.

A clear image of the base always helps identification, as does your location on the globe - that can often give a good starting point for digging around.
Photographing against a plain, white background helps too, we need to be able to see the piece clearly, and please, typeface in capitals is not only very hard to read, but is considered to be "shouting".

From what I can see, I think this may be reasonably recent, but not by somebody I recognise off-hand, I would suspect mainland Europe though.

[philo407]

Thank you for your information.  Sorry about the caps......it was a cut and paste situation.  Cheers, Frank

[chopin-liszt]

 
No worries! Hope somebody else can give you more info about it though, looks like a pretty competent piece.
However, given your location is the states, I think I may have to retract my mainland europe comment! 

[bOBA]

This is quite a strange vase, since it quite closely resembles a Juda design for Skrdlovice from 1985. I attach a (pretty average) photo I took of one,
the problem is that the irridescent coating on yours is unfamilar to me, as is the spiral pattern. This, in the original design, is always made of bubbles not a thread. The colours can change as Beranek Glass made some variations, this is possible, or maybe a copy, perhaps Jindrich has seen this type of vase before in this exact format or a GMB member may have some 1990's catalgues showing some variations from the original pattern.

So for me it is either a copy of this Juda design by some unethical company or it may be a totally innocent variation on this desiign by the factories that were running in Skrdlovice, either Skrdlovice or Beranek glass.

Does it have a flat polished base? If possible a clear photo of that may help, I tried to put Czech in the title to help hopefully bring in some ideas,
Welcome aboard, an interesting piece,

Robert (bOBA)

[philo407]

Thank you so much for your information.  I have it on ebay and I am not at all sure what to post it as.  Currently it is just under art glass.  It does have a clear flat bottom.

Thanks again,
Frank
Orlando, Florida

[Carolyn Preston]

Frank, I've been to Orlando twice for conferences. Always appreciate a good antiquing session outside of the ubiquitious (but useful in their own way) outlet centres. Where would a girl go in Orlando for such a session? I have high hopes of hitting Orlando for a third time in January.

Carolyn