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Blue and white overlay vase - vine and grapes decoration - enamel?
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Further to my comments here in this thread (see link)
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,51272.msg292956.html#msg292956
I went up to the V&A last week to look at the Franz Zach bowl - ooh it's really gorgeous.
I also took some pictures. It's the same technique as my vase, i.e. cameo, however it's only one blue layer over clear glass and the blue has been etched/carved away thinner in some areas thicker in others, as I said before, and that way it shows more or less light through giving the design on the bowl a very three dimensional feel - it's beautiful. Mine uses the white overlay behind the blue to give the paler and darker effect rather than light shining through ... if you see what I mean?
But what I could not see in the link pics was that looking at the bowl side on, the background clear just looks acid etched plain glass. However when you get the light behind it you can see vermicular engraving all over the background clear glass - it's stunning.
It's not quite as big as I imagined, so by comparison my vase/decanter feels like a fairly ok sized piece of work, especially considering how tiny (cabinet sized) many hand carved pieces of cameo glass are :)
I hope I'm ok to post these pics - they are mine and I was allowed to take pictures in there.
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Just adding for reference
I've been through the Fischer's archives and searched 960 bechers :o
Found two
this one (scroll down to second one down)
http://www.auctions-fischer.de/search.html?L=1&suche=becher&archiv=1&cHash=807ee99108&gwoffset=87
'Nordböhmen, um 1860'
and this one
http://www.auctions-fischer.de/catalogues/online-catalogues/210-european-glass-studio-glass.html?L=1&kategorie=102&artikel=26481&L=1&cHash=0e79a907d3
date c.1860
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Actually have looked carefully at image link number one and it's not a double overlay. Only blue I believe.
So 960 bechers in the Fischer's archives I've searched and only 1 in the same design in double overlay.
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A recent Bonhams Auction 13 December 2013
Lot 10 shows this becher with dog and vines. It is dated 1866.
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21673/lot/10/
It is blue over clear only, not three layer, and attributed to Karl Pfohl.
In the description there is reference to the 'scroll work' and that one with 'closely related scrollwork' is in the Passauer attributed to Karl Pfohl. The scrollwork looks like the work on my vase.
No three layer cameo pieces in the sale though despite 10 of these two layer pieces.
The description reads:
'A Bohemian cameo beaker attributed to Karl Pfohl, Steinschönau, dated 1866
Overlaid in cobalt blue, of campana shape on a spreading foot cut with ovals and trefoils, cut and engraved in shallow cameo with a dog standing on the forked branches of foliate scrollwork, a lens on the reverse engraved with the date 6/2/1866, 16.8cm high
FOOTNOTES
A tall goblet with cameo work including closely related scrollwork attributed to Karl Pfohl, is in the Passauer Glasmuseum, illustrated by Georg Höltl, Das Böhmische Glas 1700-1950, vol.3 Historismus, p.68, fig.76. Other similar pieces have been attributed to Franz Zach, including a goblet in the Rinceaux Collection, Sotheby's 18 December 2001, lot 160'
Another that is just interesting to look at - dated 1850-1860 and detailed cameo work
Intricate Stangenglas Lot 11 11th Dec 2013, dated 1850-1860 and described as
'A Bohemian cameo glass stangenglas'
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/21673/lot/11/
Red over clear matted background, quite an intricate design
Description of piece is as follows
'A Bohemian cameo glass stangenglas, circa 1850-60
The tall cylinder tapering slightly and raised on a panelled spreading foot, overlaid in deep ruby and cut, etched and engraved back to the clear frosted ground beneath, a group of carousing revellers seated among casks, vines and fruit festoons, surmounted by a further figure astride a barrel, a banner inscribed Gott erhalte uns junges Blut und alten Wein, the reverse with a viewing lens between tall vines, 33.5cm high'
All 10 pieces are Bohemian cameo glass and dated variously between 1850 and 1870.
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see my latest post above
and I ran out of time to add this -
Note:
Going back through the posts on this thread - this bowl (see link below) I believe was made by the same person as made my decanter.
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2089227
In the Harrach book (From Neuwelt to the Whole World) on page 83, there appears to be a becher that matches the pink colour. It is pink overlay on white overlay on clear (although in their description they did not mention that it was pink overlay on white over clear, they just said pink on clear which it is not). It has various designs cut through to show the layers and also has a portrait medallion on it. Although it is not a cameo piece the colour I think, matches the pink bowl linked above, of which the design matches my decanter.
In the description of the becher it says:
'Beaker with embedded paste - portrait of W. Batka'
execution: c.1850
h. 13.6cm
West Bohemian Museum, Pizen, inv.no 11187
Colourless glass with opaque pink overlay glass, cut, with embedded porcelain paste. Engraved on the bottom "Batka dedicav".
In the 1840s Wenzel Batka was one of the main suppliers of raw materials (chemicals) to the Neuwelt glassworks. '
I'm pretty sure that is a good match for the pink over white over clear bowl.
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