Topic: WMF Ikora vase...? ID = Confirmed Ikora, pattern E 692/5027, 1935/6

[rocco]

I managed to aquire this impressive vase today.
Quite big at a height of 23 cm, diameter 17 cm.

Ground base with circular pontil mark, not polished.

Multicoloured powdery inclusions, some silver chloride, rim with irregular bubbles.

These sellers (Herr Auktionen, ebay seller 1, ebay seller 2) are quite certain that it is WMF Ikora.
I have asked Dirk about it, and he wasn't entirely sure, but thought it should be

Can anybody confirm the attribution?
I will get the Ikora glass book in few weeks, but I am an impatient person...

Thanks!
Michael

[chopin-liszt]

I'm clueless about whether it is WMF or not - it reminds me a bit of the fabby work by Karl Weidmann - whatever it is, it is glorious and a wonderful thing to possess. 

[rocco]

Thanks, Sue

It does have the "Wiedmann look", so I do hope that WMF Ikora (and 1930s) is quite likely.
At least the people from Glaskilian share this opinion -- these two bowls have a very similar decoration, regarding the colours (the lilac coloured powders, in addition to the bright red ones), the yellowish rim area with bubbles, and the undecorated zone:
> Link 1
> Link 2

Michael

[Mike M]

Looks 100% Ikora to me!

M

[dirk.]

With your new fantastic pictures Iīd say Ikora 100% now, too. 

[rocco]

Thanks Mike and Dirk!
Great that it could be confirmed.

Obviously not a rare one (seem to be quite a few of them around), but a really beautiful one.

So I finally managed to aquire a 100% Ikora piece (since my last to -- potential -- Ikora purchases turned out to be probably Ikora and rather not Ikora )

Michael

[rocco]

Now that I have the wonderful Ikora glass book, I can add a little info to this vase:
pattern nr. is E 692/5027, and according to the table at the end of the book, this "range" (2 bowls, 3 vases) is only found in the 1935 and 1936 catalogues...

It's a pity that the Ikora lamp book never got published -- I would love to have >> my two unusual Ikora lamps confirmed, too

Michael

[dirk.]

:hiclap:

You arenīt infected with the Ikora virus, are you? 
Beware - they can be addictive! I shall post my latest purchases soon...
Although I (once) decided only to buy the uranium ones I couldnīt resist
three opportunities lately. Consequency... sigh...

[rocco]

I'm afraid I am infected
I just adore glass with complex internal decoration...

Unfortunately not easy to find here in Austria (and the more interesting pieces on German ebay are well above what I like to pay)

BTW, Dirk -- have you seen that I found another of those interesting 85%-Ikora-15%-unsure lamps?

Michael

[dirk.]

Sorry for not replying earlier, Michael!
Ikoraīs not easy to find here either. Itīs so well known you hardly get the chance
to find it for a low price; the prices arenīt as high as they used to be some years
ago, though.
Iīve nevertheless bought 3 or 4 within the last weeks. One in a shop (for a tenner),
one misidentified from an auction house and a lot of two from another auction house.
Iīm still a bit undecided about one of the latter as it is quite unusual and I -alas- still
havenīt found the right book in my cardboxes...
Iīve decided only to keep the unusual one apart from my uranium ones, but Iīd agree
they are quite stunning pieces especially when you look at those with scarcer colour
schemes.
Concerning your lamps...
You shouldnīt worry too much about the remaining 10 or 15%. The variety is immense
and as long as thereīs no more convincing theory - Occamīs razor...