Topic: Large pressed glass Art Deco bowl with demountable birds = Brockwitz Fortuna

[RoynMargaret]

Having decided once before to sell her collection of Victorian and Art Deco glass in favour of the more voluptuous and exotic creations from Murano & elsewhere, every now and again Margaret reverts to type - and buys something very Deco. Then she says "see what you can find out about it."

Well, so far I can say positively it <b>is</b> glass and it is brown/amber and  would agree it probably is Deco and 1930s. Apart from that, I have chased all over the Internet and come up with ... zilch.

It is a very heavy 14-in diameter bowl with four moulded demountable acid-etched/frosted birds. No marks. Any ideas as to maker and date please?

[B & M]

Brockwitz 'Fortuna', shown iin the 1941 catalogue and also here on Pressglas-korrespondenz: http://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2005-1w-betteridge-brockwitz-schale-seeloewen.pdf

Steven

[RoynMargaret]

Amazing. Margaret will be so pleased. Thank you very much.

Any opinions on value please?

[Anne]

Pamela has a picture of the Brockwitz Fortuna bowl with three little feet on her wonderful Pressed Glass Pavilion website, but hers does not have the birds: http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/01126.html

Roy, Can I ask please, how do the birds fit onto the bowl? Do they just sit on the rim or is there a way of stopping them falling off?

[Frank]

Pegs in holes, you can see one of the pegs in the above pic. Shows better in the sea-lions one.

[Anne]

Ah yes, now you point them out I can see the pegs just sticking out. Thanks Frank.  I just rechecked and Pamela's bowl doesn't have holes for pegs, so presumably some bowls were meant to have birds and others weren't.

[pamela]

http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/schalen/01164.html

and some were meant to have dolphins... we do not know particularly, that these are Brockwitz - but I do think so  :shock:  

[Anne]

Fascinating, thank you Pamela. If I see a bowl with holes in I shall now know what they are meant for.  

[pamela]

 :chky:  :rah:

Many moons ago, Margaret and Roy were kind enough to donate this lovely amber bowl with birds to my museum -
here is finally the proof of it being made by Brockwitz!

Also Barbara in Australia was kind enough to let me have photos of her blue set here:

http://pressglas-pavillon.de/tafelaufsaetze/09283.html

And here are images of the green centerpiece, courtesy of Jim and Jacky:

http://pressglas-pavillon.de/tafelaufsaetze/09637.html

Thank you all so much again  :kissy:

More pages to follow soon on www.glas-musterbuch.de

 :smg:  :sm:

[RoynMargaret]

Lovely to see the other colours. It does appear to be an accident-prone set: The blue bowl has been in pieces and the green birds are reglued. Our amber birds were without some wings or tails.

We never knew about the centrepiece column/flower frog