Topic: Controlled bubble dish - Jacob Bang for Kastrup?

[David E]

This controlled bubble dish has a strange colour combination - an amber core cased in a pale-green glass. It measures 4˝-in (11.5cm) square and has a very fine and regular controlled bubble finish. Ground and polished base, very well made.

Any ideas on maker and factory? I have seen it attributed to Jacob Bang for Kastrup.

[Lustrousstone]

Murano I believe from what I was told on here http://lustrousstone.co.uk/cpg/displayimage.php?pid=279

[David E]

Thanks, but I wonder which factory then? I was referring to Miller's 20th C Glass, Andy McConnell, p.143 for the Kastrup ID, where there are certain similarities.

[glassobsessed]

Interesting, take a look at: http://www.hardernet.dk/Artglass/Blaereoptik-Kastrup_Glasvaerk_1954.htm

John

[obscurities]

For what it is worth, the color combination does not strike me as Italian....  neither does the bubble pattern either....
Just a gut reaction though....

Craig

[David E]

Thanks for all your help.

Thanks John. There are one or two with pinched rims and the controlled bubble looks similarly tight, but none match the shape of mine (mind you, the thumbnails are frustratingly small!) Then again, it is similar in style to the one on 20th C Glass, which is attributed to Bang/Kastrup. I tend to agree with you Craig as the colours are unusual and the bubbles are very well structured. I supposes it could still be one of the smaller artisans at Murano though.

[David E]

I've emailed Hardernet to see if they can shed light on this.

[David E]

Had a very pleasant and comprehensive reply from Peter Harder (www.hardernet.dk), which may help:

Hej David

One of these glass items that is very hard to identify because glass items with air bubbles was made by glassworks in Denmark but also in Sweden, Norway and Finland.

As for Denmark not many is to be found in catalogue, neither Holmegaard nor Kastrup and most of the production was “made to customer”

I am sure that the “flower” shape bubble bowl is not Jacob E. Bang – If it should be Danish I am sure that it probably is “made to customer” at Fyens Glasswork that was part of Kastrup Glasswork but Fyens Glasswork was the maker of lots and lots of the items of the “Kastrup Glaswork” brand.

But I have not been able to find you bowl in any of the “operations card” for Fyens Glaswork and the shape do not appear in any of the Kastrup and Fyens catalogue I have.

Yes, the bowl does look very much like the ones you have found on my website, but in the 1950s almost all glassworks in the Nordic countries made glassworks with air bubbles.

Do not think it is Danish and more likely from a Swedish glasswork like Kosta, Boda or Orrefors and probably the same time period 1950s.

Cannot come it closer because it is not present as a catalogue item, very few vase and none as designer pieces. Shape or near shape does not appear in any internal operations card.

Med venlig hilsen

Peter Harder