Topic: Tiffany Favrile Ewer?

[svazzo]

Hello Everyone,
Recently purchased this piece, a very high iridescent Pitcher or Ewer with a KB label.
The label itself and the company imported glass from Italy, but this piece does not look like it is to me.
It looks very much like a Tiffany Favrile piece, of which I have seen many paperweights and small bowls in the same desoration.
Would anyone know if this could be a Tiffany piece?

Below is a link to 2 paperweights in the same design, one of which is signed by Tiffany, the other is not.
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9711673

Anyone have any thoughts?
Thank you in advance! and have a great weekend everyone!
Javier

[TxSilver]

Javier, there is a ewer of this design but with different decoration in the 1969 KB catalog. The ewer showed in the catalog is called "vasa murrina" for some reason. It is burnt orange with silver. The one in the catalog is 9.5" tall and pictured with many other things I know are Murano glass. Your ewer does not strike me as Tiffany at all. I do like yours better than the one in the KB catalog.

[svazzo]

Hi TxSilver,
Thanks for the reply.
I do not own any catalogs by the company, but have owned many Fratelli Toso (attributed) pieces with their labels, including ewers and cruets.
This design is nothing like those I have seen before, or owned myself.
Meaning the opal handle, the high Iridescence, spot design.
None of them match what I have seen before.

I do own some Toso Iridescent pieces, and the way the surface is treated is very different as well.
I remembered seeing those paperweights and once I got the Ewer I searched them out again and saw they were actually signed Tiffany.
They have the same "coin dot" design (of course in the ewer, since it is hollow the spots are stretched out).
Would you know what other types of things the company sold in their US galleries?
Is everything in the catalog from Italy?

Usually even if a piece is done in a design I have not seen before, there are at least 2 or 3 things that will tell me who made it.
On this one, I am really stumped, specially with the label which says "Made in Italy".
If I had seen this piece without a label, I would have thought American Studio on first impression.

[svazzo]

Just received my new what I have been waiting for!
Same as the Tiffany Iridescent ones on the link, and it does have the KB Label!!!
There is no signature underneath, but you can see they are the same.

[scimiman]

http://www.fossilfly.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=1839

Have a look here.
Go to the bottom post could lead you to what you are after.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[Lustrousstone]

Javier wants confirmation of who made his ewer, not who imported it Simon.  Can we see the signature on the paperweight Javier please

[svazzo]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the replies.
The paperweight i just received does not have a signature, but has the KB label on it.
If you see the link I posted from LiveAuctioneers, they have 2 paperweights, 1 with a signature and another without, but both are the exact same ones (same as mine as well).
"PAIR OF TIFFANY PAPERWEIGHTS: Amber color base with green coin dot decoration. Impressed Tiffany Favrile Glass Registered Trademark on one."

Those were the first ones I saw with the iridescent spot design my Ewer has and what led me to think it was a Tiffany piece.
The paperweight I posted photos of is one I found at auction, and it just happened to also have the KB label the Ewer has.
I was trying to find a link between Tiffany Favrile and KB Imports.
Seems this paperweight is the link I was looking for, but still would really like to know 100% if "Tiffany Favrile" lend their items to sell at the KB galleries.

[scimiman]

Javier wants confirmation of who made his ewer, not who imported it Simon.  Can we see the signature on the paperweight Javier please

I posted it in the hope it could lead them in the correct direction, better than nothing.
Mike www.abfabglass.co.uk

[Frank]

KB label is

1951 data (Glass-study.com) -
KOSCHERAK BROS., INC., 129 Fifth Ave­nue (3), GR 7-7733. F. E. Koscherak, president; Morris Blau, sales man­ager.
Imports from England, Italy, France and Germany in china, glass, pottery.
category: Fancies - represented in Chicago by: W. C. Owens, Inc., 1520 Merchandise Mart.

Current web data -
Koscherak Brothers Inc -    Giftwares (Wholesale)
448 W 16th St, New York, New York 10011
(212) 627-2050


If they still exist a phone call may answer the puzzle.

This pottery mark proves that KB was NY http://www.collectorscircle.com/bohemian/Porcelain-2/porcelain/marks/gs004Koscherak-Mark-1.jpg

A Jack Badash of Javit glass fame was employed as a shipping clerk at KB in 1936 before starting his glassworks. Pushing date back further in time.

It is likely related also to Austrian Bohemia Koscherack Bottling Works that existed up to around 1925 and then reappear as Koscherak Siphon Bottle Works, Hoboken, New Jersey importing soda siphons from Austria.... dating coincidences maybe but a strong suggestion that this was at least a family connection. So KB NY probably came into existence in the 1925-36 period perhaps taking advantage of the depression?

[Frank]

Just played a hunch and got a part answer for you.

This 1948 advert on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140593298025+

Date KB to founded in 1887, so dash above dating thoughts!!! But I still suggest family connections.

The ad says more about their ranges and include Venetian glass & AMERICAN POTTERY and GLASSWARE but why would they put the Made in Italy label on? They had other label designs for Italy without KB too.