Topic: Massive piece of Lobed Czech Glass - Sklo? Jan Beranek?

[glassguru]

I've just purchased this monumental piece of glass in a second hand shop, my mind immediately sprung to Sklo and Jan Beranek but I would love some more info and perhaps confirmation of my hunch?

This piece is a massive 21" tall by 5" at the base and is very heavy.

I can't find any more info online other than it is in the 'lobe' form - perhaps someone with the 'Hi Sklo Lo Sklo' book could help me?

Any further info would be greatly appreciated!

[bat20]

I found a piece Labelled Yugoslavia with a similar feel to yours,but I'm no expert I'm afraid.

[clutterfingers]

I am also looking to ID the same piece.  I have the large one like glassguru's in blue, and also in ruby, plus a smaller ruby one that's 11" tall.  I saw a green one today at an antiques fair, and may have to go back and get it tomorrow as I love them!

I too originally thought it was 50s Skrdlovice, but my large ruby one is sticked with a gold circular mid-century style label, on which I can just about make out what looks like "Roumania" (sic).

Any news or information gratefully welcomed 

[glassguru]

Hi clutterfongers, I have since found out from a collector that my piece is infact Murano free form, this did surprise me as I was sure it was something else but he even showed me a book with the range in!

[chopin-liszt]

I'm much more with Romania than Italy for this piece.
There are hundreds of different makers in Murano, what book was it you saw?

[brucebanner]

There are not hundreds of makers in Murano you can walk around it in 15 minutes.

[chopin-liszt]

My legs were very, very short when I was there  and I can only walk very slowly now, about 50 years later. Your 15 minutes would be a good couple of hours for me, even if there are no gentle slopes...
Perhaps I exaggerated a bit. 
But there are a lot of makers, and a lot of shops who now import Chinese glass and label it as being Murano.
There is a vast range of quality, from very poor to top of the world.
And I still do not think it was any one of them who made this, but I'm willing to learn. If these big heavy vases with this texture are pictured in a book as being Murano, I would really like to know what book it was, because to my limited knowledge, these are generally thought to be of Romanian origin.

[clutterfingers]

I went back to the antiques fair and purchased the smaller green version yesterday.  The seller there (a Scandinavian glass collector/dealer) was convinced it was Czech, but had no evidence.  The more I look at the two small ones (ruby and green), the more I think they're by a different maker, although the design is very similar.  The points on the top of the tall vases are more pointy and refined, the hot-worked pulled indentations on the sides are long and ovoid, unlike the smaller cruder knobbles on the small ones.  I'll take some photos in better light in the morning, but the small ones feel thicker and very like other Skrdlovice knobbly vases that I have.

Annoyingly I saw a small blue one for sale online somewhere a couple of nights ago (the seller hadn't identified it either) but now I can't remember where I saw it! 😀  If anyone spots it, please let me know, I'll buy it and see how it compares with these others I have. 

[rocco]

Hi,
none of the vases are Czech IMHO.
I would stick with Romanian manufacture (as the sticker on the red one suggests )

Michael

[clutterfingers]

Pic of all 4 together...