Topic: Help with ID on ashtray

[I love all Glass]

Hello everyone, I am a new member please be kind. I have this very nice Sommerso ashtray, the gold is lovely. It measures 15cm across and 6cm tall and a heavy .823kg in weight. Any clue to a maker?  It is a real stunner to look at, all ideas gratefully received.    Thanks     Simon

[antiquerose123]

Hi and Welcome  :rah:

Lovely ashtray -- I am leaning (guessing) towards Czech Glass ?? -- but sometimes I lean too far over, and fall right off the Map.....

So I am sure others like be able to give you a better, positive ID.

Again Welcome, you will Enjoy it here!!  :hi:

[johnphilip]

Hi welcome , i hope its from a smoke free home ...! :ha: :hi:

[langhaugh]

A nicely made ashtray. I don't think it's Czech, at least not Skrdlovice, Chribska or Harrachov, as the rim is wrong. The rim also rules out Afors, from Sweden, which made a similar type of ashtray. I don't think it's sommerso, strictly speaking. There are many glassworks who have made something like this. However, the flat rim combined with the hot-worked  lumpy bottom make it quite distinctive so I think you'll be able to id it at some point.

Welcome to the board and, don't worry, you'll soon learn to appreciate johnphillip.

David

[astrid]

It's nice... style points towards 50s to 70s. Can't pin it to a country, I'm afraid. If not Czech, it could be German, but with the flowing lines it might also hail from for instance Belgium. I hope others can help you further along.

Astrid

[Anik R]

Hello Simon,

The ashtray is not Czech (in my humble opinion)...  it's also not hotworked.  I've got the same item, and the lines and shape are perfectly symmetrical -- my impression is that it's pressed.

Maybe someone will recognise it.  Here is my ashtray...

[Lustrousstone]

Moulded certainly, perhaps not pressed, as that's not so easy with two colours. And definitely not sommerso; just two colours.

[langhaugh]

Anik:

Fascinating. You've got me peering and and pondering. The different angles create very different impressions.  Moulded or pressed would explain the rim. Is the base of your one flat?

David

[Anik R]

Ah, thank you, Christine...  moulded.  

David, the base flows with the body, so not exactly flat.

Not to dampen Simon's enthusiasm for the piece, I wasn't as impressed with it... there is something about how the yellow and clear come together which I find strange, though please don't ask me to explain.   

[Anne E.B.]

May be Val St Lambert?