Topic: Knobbly bark vase Czech?

[Tigerchips]

I haven't purchased any books on Czech glass yet, no excuse other than needing money for other things and going off glass for a while.

I was going to wait till i bought the book but here's one i have which i suspect to be Czech but not sure...

It's obviously based on the well famous bark design which Whitefriars and other companies did.

[Tigerchips]

Okay so it is Czech as i just spotted it on the video that's on the Sklo Union site. 

[Jindra8526]

Exactly, it is Vladislav Urban (* 14.3.1937), Sklo Union, Rosice 1962 - 1507/75

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo

[Tigerchips]

Thank you for the info. 

[glassobsessed]

Geoffrey Baxter at Whitefriars was not the first to use a bark like texture for mould blown items. I do not know who was first but bark textures were being used in Scandinavian designs for at least a few years before Mr Baxter started designing with textured finishes in the late sixties. Michael Harris was experimenting with the idea at some time between 1963 and 1965 - according to Mark Hill in his book on Mdina (page 13).

Who was first? Sarpaneva, Wirkkala, or....?

John

[Ivo]

Wirkkala ttbomk

[glassobsessed]

What does ttbomk mean Ivo?

[Max]

to the best of my knowledge (I had to work it out...lol!)

[Tigerchips]

Porcelain was first.  :ooh:

[glassobsessed]

I am not good with abbreviations, they seem obvious once someone has explained them to me but within a few months I will probably forget.