Topic: Unusual, Modern Footed Vase - Czech?

[dorian_graye]

This vase looks a bit like a mid century Czech piece, but the footed base is throwing me off.  It's 9" inches tall.

[astrid]

I can't identify it with any certainty, but the style of the work certainly reminds me of modern German Glass. In which case my gut feeling says that Nachtmann would be a likely candidate. All I know is that it isn't a current Nachtmann design, but it could be a 80s or 90s one.

Astrid

[dorian_graye]

This is a pressed glass piece.  Isn't Nachtmann known for crystal?

[astrid]

They do both crystal and glass. In the non-recent past they made more cut (to clear) crystal, but their current catalogue features mostly pressed glass and pressed crystal. I'll attach a few of my Nachtmanns from the last 20 years or so (all pressed) to show you why I thought of them:

And a link to their current catalogue: http://webcatalog.studio-winter.de/nachtmann-en/#/1/

Astrid

[dorian_graye]

I can see what you mean by the shape.  So, you don't think there is any lead or "pbo" content in your selection?  Yours seems much superior in clarity and a bit more refined than mine.  Did you notice the seems running up the side of my vase which are visible in the last photo of the base or foot?

[astrid]

Nachtmann indicates in their catalogue wether they used lead crystal or non-lead crystal. I have the box of the second picture, the Slice, and it says 'non-lead crystal'. I believe the third one, Bossa Nova, is also without lead. They still are quite heavy and show no press lines.

The first one though probably is lead crystal and has endured some polishing that looks manual. Older Nachtmann pieces probably were made of lead crystal mostly, if they are labeled they often have a 24% lead label as well.

Visible seems are not really current Nachtmann policy, but I don't know wether they went through a more sloppy period. I know Peill & Pultzer, another German quality crystal factory, did. Some of their 80's vases are thin, seemed, and not high quality. I wouldn't have believed them to be Peill if they weren't marked... Probably a result of frantically trying to find a profitable business model when handmade production had become too expensive at that time.

Anyway, maybe we can conclude that Nachtmann is unlikely, it might however still be German given the style of the design (Germany had a lot of smaller glassworks that in the 80s and 90s slowly faded out of existence or were gobbled up by bigger ones). Czech of course is also still a possibility.

Astrid

[dorian_graye]

Thank you for the Nachtmann information.  That was very informative.

Anyway, I am fairly certain that this vase will turn out to be Czech.

[dorian_graye]

Would it be possible to change the subject line of this post for future reference so that it might be more descriptive?