Topic: Heavy blue-green hotworked vase with applied decor -- Czech?

[rocco]

Beautiful mystery vase, blue and green with indentations to the front and back,, and applied amber/rose elements to the sides.
(The green looks like it could be Uranium glass, but I cannot check that atm).

Height 20 cm and quite weighty at 2.7 kg.

Nicely finished angular rim, flat polished and bevelled base.

It looks very Czech to me, but the colours are not right for Skrdlovice, nor could I find it in one of the 1950s pattern books.
My best guess would be Frantisek Zemek for Mstisov glassworks, but searching through CGR didn't come up with much.

Or am I barking up the wrong tree, and this is a Czech-glass-lookalike from another area?

Any help highly appreciated as always.
Thanks,
Michael

[Mr. Turnip]

The top rim and the polished bottom do look very Skrdlovice, as does the design and the quality. There's a vase pictured on page 30 (designed by Bohuslav Beranek) of 'Beranek and Skrdlovice - Legends of Czech Glass' by Robert Bevan Jones and Jindrich Parik (a Mark Hill book) that looks similar in colour (totally different shape!) - although the Bohuslav Beranek vase may well be more grey/blue rather than blue/green (I have a Skrdlovice vase in grey and amber/orange colourway) not entirely certain from the picture in the book. Your vase could perhaps come under Skrdlovice 'experimental patterns'?

I bet Jindrich Parik will know what it is....

[glassobsessed]

How about ZBS?

John

[rocco]

Thanks!
So no objections against Czech origin -- good

I am still leaning towards Mstisov (the orange decor looks similar in colour to my Zemek candle holder from that period >> Link).
The colours do not look typical ZBS; but as I don't know what they may have produced during the 1950s I wouldn't rule it out.

Michael

[glassobsessed]

I have seen the blue green combo before, I thought maybe here on the forum but no luck finding it so far.

Is this the blue? http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7epZ4R_-IW0/TeqIfjDvivI/AAAAAAAADZA/iZlEudOj4gc/s1600/glas279.jpg

Some colour info here from Marcus, a partial list in relation to animals and fish: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,28061.msg156312.html#msg156312

[bOBA]

I am not sure I can say anything helpful unfortunately about this lovely vase.... though Czech seems very likely and I would prefer slightly Karlovarske Sklo or Chribska over ZBS but not based on concrete evidence. I do not think we have seen all of the "Palme" patterns made on that factory site in circa 1957 by probable Mstisov-Karlovarske employees either..... Some exact attributions can be very elusive. I have not seen this exact pattern before and it is certainly close to some Emanuel Beranek designs from the mid fifites.

Robert (bOBA)

[rocco]

Thank you very much!
That is approximately what I thought, too.
I am sure there are quite a few ranges from Mstisov / Karlovarske, Chribska, Palme or ZBS which just were not featured as widely as others, and thus remain unknown to us.
(I read in your book, I think, that Emanuel Beranek even designed for other companies in the 1950s, Chribska if I remember properly?)

Maybe something similar with a label turns up one day

@Robert: I would love to hear your opinion on my new Veliskova vase (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,58582.0.html) -- do you think I am right in attributing it to CMS / Krasno, or is it more likely from Skrdlovice?
I am happy with either

Thanks,
Michael