Topic: Majestic electric blue cut glass Jardinaire Gotta see this!!Sklo Bohemium??

[beaubow]

Yes, I should have mentioned Memphis.  It's probably what he's best known for.  His early designs for Alessi and other, from the 1970s, were quite simple and somewhat Brutalist, and I like them quite a bit.  

The high-period Memphis stuff always reminds me of Pee Wee Herman's TV show, Pee Wee's Playhouse.  I'll leave my comments at that  :rn:

[Paul S.]

thanks Greg, but I don't think it was, and I've forgotten in which of the upteen books I saw the picture that made me think of W/Fs -  just that I do remember it was a sapphire colour and was a cut piece from W/Fs.     I'll try looking again tomorrow.

Bradbury, do you mean wheel engraved rather than etched?.........I had understood that it was only acid that achieved an etched effect.

I really did expect that one of the W/Fs people would have long since come in and discounted this as being from 'the white friar'

I'm probably now leaning towards Bohemian or Czech.

[BRADBURY7308]

Sorry yep wheel engraved, 

[chopin-liszt]

Taking in to account my complete ignorance of this sort of thing, (in terms of time period, clear glass and cut stuff) my first reaction to the piece was to think of some of the unusual and non-catalogued or non-standard pictorial designs found on Webb - particularly in the Gay glass range of pieces......

But the scalloped bottom seem out of place with these.