Topic: Thick art glass amethyst bowl with blue, red and burgandy blotch -- Czech?

[Anik R]

Hello everyone,

I would appreciate some help with a bowl I've got.  It's somehow familiar, but I can't remember where I've seen it before...   Is it Czech? 

The bowl is very thick with a well which looks deeper than it actually is.  It's a light amethyst with an internal blotch of blue, red and burgandy.  There are 5 vertical grooves on the outside which go from the top rim to the very base.  The base is highly polished and perfectly flat (with a lot of wear to it). 

The bowl is only 17cm wide and 6.5 cm tall, but it weighs a mighty 2307g.  It's a very heavy piece for its size.

Ah, the bowl came to me from the Czech Republic.

Thank you for looking,
Anik

[chopin-liszt]

It looks comfy enough to snuggle into. 
Have you checked the lilac colour under both daylight and artificial light to see if it is neo-wotsit-s glass?
(Neodynium).
I'm afraid I can't help with origins at all, but if it's neo-wotsit-s, that might help indicate a direction to look into?
It's really nice, whatever it is.

[rocco]

Hi Anik
looks much more Murano than Czech to me.

Sorry, unable to attribute it to a particular maker...
Antonio da Ros used this colour combination of red or blue thickly cased in Neodymium glass quite a lot.
Other contender might be Salviati -- I have this nice paperweight made in a similar vein >> http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,49200.0.html
But I guess several companies may have made similarish pieces...

All the best,
Michael

[Anik R]

Thank you for your replies, Sue and Michael. 

I've checked, and I don't think the bowl is neodymium -- the amethyst colour stays amethyst in every light.

I thought (or rather hoped foolishly) that it was perhaps an older Skrdlovice piece (for example Veliskova's 5046...  it looks similar to the drawing in the pattern book, but I can't make out if the lines on the sides are grooves, or if it's the well.)   Then again, it doesn't really look Skrdlovice-ish, does it?

Michael, the blotches in your super-cool paperweight look very much like the blotches in my bowl. So maybe Murano is a better direction for me to look in... 

Thank you, both, again!
Anik xx

[chopin-liszt]

My guts did have a vague "da Ros / Murano" mumble, but I know so little about Italian I needed somebody else to mention it before I did.

[Anik R]

Oh Sue, at least your gut managed to mumble something about Murano... a step ahead of me. 

[chopin-liszt]

It might just have been wind. 

[Anik R]

LOL...  but still more than I was getting, Sue!