Topic: New vase - don't even know what to call the technique

[cubby01]

Hi Ross, thanks for the tip.  I can't get the search engines to come up with anything... all the top hits for 'Barak glass' or 'barak art glass' or 'Australian art glass' with 'Barak' seem to assume I'm asking about the president of the USA. :huh:  I even tried entering it with my best Aussie accent highly influenced by Paul Hogan and Colin Hay... still no luck. See I'm showing my age there eh.   Is 'Barak' an art glass manufacturer or an importer?

[ahremck]

Good question, Cubby.  Do not know for sure.  Definitely not Australian art glass.  Suspect it was Turkish from very vague memory.  Only ever saw paper labels.

I also suspect it is BARAC not Barak.  One vague reference re Ebay - but obviously out of date.  There is a company "Barac International" locally that sells trophies and giftware - perhaps it was a distributor label.
 
Ross

[Sue C]

what about Royal Brierley studio ware?    this is mine and signed but i did have another piece with just a sticker, maybe a long shot but another avenue.

[Ivo]

quite a different technique, really.

[jinxi]

Hi  I think it is usually called schaumglas, which I believe is German for foam glass, Loetz made some and I have been told that several other firms like Zweisel? made some too.  I have a Loetz one but it has coloured glass trailed through.  It looks fragile from a distance but is quite a solid and chunky piece.  Mine has the remains of a label so I know without doubt what it is but you could look on the Loetz website  www.loetz.com

I have just looked and can only see two examples and both have colours.

Veronica

[jinxi]

Forgot to say that mine has no irridescence!

Veronica

[Ivo]

Three examples of Leerdam tin crackle from 1935.

[cubby01]

Thanks Ivo, is the Leerdam tin crackle fairly coarse?  If so I may have tin crackle but from examples of Leerdam I've seen from searching the web I don't think mine is Leerdam.  Same goes for the Maastricht pieces I saw   Both makers are very nice and I certainly wouldn't mind running into one of those pieces.

-Buck

[Ivo]

Fairly course is a fair description. There are signed examples with proper finish, but there are many seconds out there which have a course unfinished bottom.