Topic: Help With ID please - Metallic On Blue Vase - No Idea......

[charliepedro]

Hi guys,

Anyone have any ideas who's behind this vase? It's very heavy at approx 1.6kg - stands approx. 5.75'' high and main body measures approx. 7.5'' across. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Charlene

[Paul S.]

hello Charlene  -  it might help with an id if you are able to attach pictures of both the base (can often tell you a lot) and another looking down onto the top flared rim.

[charliepedro]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the tip - I should've realised that, d'oh! Here we go....

[charliepedro]

And of the rim.......

[scimiman]

Have a look very carefully on the base and See if you can see a tiny J on top of a Z because the colourway looks very Jan Zeman.
You have to keep turning the piece until the light catches it.
Good luck.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[charliepedro]

Well thanks so much Mike for your suggestion which is most certainly spot on - I've done some looking around and found numerous vases of Jan Zeman's which absolutely confirms for me that my piece is by him. The trouble is on very close inspection as you recommended, there appears to be no initials on the base not even tiny so I would ask the obvious question why would a piece have left his workshop without his mark? Curious...

Cheers, Charlene

[Jindra8526]

I have not found Jan Zeman web page, it does not work more. I cannot find any onfo about this company, but O have found another replicas maker:

http://www.florianovahut.com/21-en-iridescent-glass.html#hlavni

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo

[scimiman]

Well thanks so much Mike for your suggestion which is most certainly spot on - I've done some looking around and found numerous vases of Jan Zeman's which absolutely confirms for me that my piece is by him. The trouble is on very close inspection as you recommended, there appears to be no initials on the base not even tiny so I would ask the obvious question why would a piece have left his workshop without his mark? Curious...

Cheers, Charlene

Hello Charlene,
I know you have already had a look but I cant stress strongly enough how difficult his signiture is to see. I have some of Jans pieces and I know they are signed but I  can sit there for ages looking for a signiture that I know is there. The JZ is very tiny and has the ability of merging with its background. Start from the center and work your way out even going up the side a little way.
I have never seen a piece of Jans work that is not signed but thats not to say there isnt any out there.
Happy hunting
Regards Mike