Topic: Heavy, bubbly vase -- German? Or...?

[rocco]

Purchased this via ebay.de, not knowing what it was; now that it has arrived it is far more attractive than I had imagined, but regarding ID I am not a bit wiser...

Stands 15.5 cm tall, thickwalled and quite heavy, blueish-grey with loads of slightly yellowish bubbles and some dark inclusions, thickly cased in colourless glass.
Softly indented base with circular polished pontil mark, unsigned.

I would think the whole thing is hotworked, but maybe only the rim is...

My first guess are the German makers like Gral-Glas, WMF, Zwiesel. But other options may be Benny Motzfeldt, or even Leerdam?

Thanks for any help,
Michael

[chopin-liszt]

Have you looked very carefully around the edge of the base for a mark - it looks a little bit Peill & Putzler to me...

[Ivo]

Google schleiergraphit

[rocco]

Thanks Sue and Ivo!

I did think of Peill due to the colour, but somehow it didn't fit with the Schleiergraphit pieces I have seen so far.
(And I wouldn't mind at all if it was Peill)

No mark anywhere, I had checked that very carefully.

And though the colour does look similar, I haven't seen a hotworked piece like this, nor one with this amount of small bubbles in additon to the (bigger) grey bubbles from Peill... (which certainly doesn't mean much )

Michael

[antiquerose123]

Google schleiergraphit

Bless you........

Oh, I thought you Sneezed......Lol                  That was a mouthful for Glass 

[dirk.]

Think I´ve seen it described as Gralglas somewhere, but can´t confirm since I haven´t
the book at hand. Nice one!

[rocco]

Thanks Dirk! Yes, it is really nice, I actually didn't really want to buy it, just bid a small sum and won it to my surprise

I have looked 2 times through the Gralglas book yesterday, but couldn't find a real match.
I shall browse the CD and see if I can find something similar....

EDIT: found it -- it is Gralglas!
PN is F 502/16/30, design gralglas-Atelier.
It is pictured in "Glaskiste" 27 / 1969, 27---06

Michael

[chopin-liszt]

Well done Michael and Dirk
- I really wasn't sure about it being schleiergraphit. 

[astrid]

The schleiergraphit vases of Peill & Putzler I've seen so far are not cased in clear glass, that might be one way to tell the difference. Unless someone has seen cased versions?

Astrid

[chopin-liszt]

I've just been looking very carefully, Astrid. I have at least 3 bits of shleiergraphit which are cased - having a thick, clear base.
Although there are a few trails of bubbles in the casing, these bubbles are all absolutely clear - and they form an outer layer of bubbles which contributes to the overall three-dimensional effect.
Some of my pieces are badly water-marked (they came from ebay), and there seems to be a problem with water getting into some bubbles - so sometimes you can see vaguely yellow colours.

Anyway - this piece is Gralglas!