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Stunning Alabaster Glass / Opaline Perfume Bottle. Bohemia ca. 1820-1840
catshome:
What a beautiful addition to your collection.....congratulations! It would seem to make sense to develop this thread, rather than start a new one.
Mars from Isergebirge:
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I think Franz Pohl was Josephinenhutte?
He ran both Josephinenhutte AND Karlsthal, cf. S. Żelasko "Grafflich Schaffgotsch'sche Josephinenhutte..." (Passau 2005). Hoffnungsthal was founded by Preussler, Matterne and Preller Jun. All three glassworks - Josephinenhutte (from 1841), Karlsthal (from 1754), and Hoffnungsthal (from 1796) - were in Silesia, specifically the Isergebirge. John Quincy Adams visited Hoffnungsthal in 1800, as well as Neuwelt, making interesting remarks.
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flying free:
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Thank you for clarifying this :) I'm sorry my response in reply #15 was a bit confusing because I was confused. I've only recently been reading about Franz Pohl
on something to do with paperweights and realised about the different factories.
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Mars from Isergebirge:
He returned to Silesia in 1837 and married Preussler's only daughter, Amalie, in 1839 (the famous Preussler-Huxt that changed the fashion in the region!), taking over Karlsthal in the same year or in the following one. Josephinenhutte was inaugurated in 1842. If you read the first Act of Gerhart Hauptmann's "And Pippa Dances!", you will see Pohl Junior as Director of the Josephinenhutte visiting the now-defunct Karlsthal - a two-hour horse ride through the snow - to eat trout with potatoes, drink champagne, and see a teenage girl dance, in what is actually the Schneider's Gasthaus, which existed through 1945. Hauptmann first visited the Isergebirge in 1890, and there is a fragment in his memoirs about how Karlsthal, the Gasthaus, and the area inspired him. His biographer writes that he "spent once a night in an old glassworks-inn in the Isergebirge, and what he saw there, inspired the first Act of 'Pippa.'"
flying free:
Thank you - quote 'John Quincy Adams visited Hoffnungsthal in 1800, as well as Neuwelt, making interesting remarks.'
I've just looked that up and been reading the report. Fascinating to read a report contemporary to the times. The rivalry between the sides of the mountains is interesting. My knowledge is severely limited really, and made more difficult by trying to understand the geography and place names.
He talks of Warmbrunn - which reminded me of some bechers I have seen with enamelled plaques with that name on (perhaps something sold by Dr Fischer auctions whilst I was looking for bechers with enamelled medallion plaques on them). This seems to be one which has an enamelled picture of Warmbrunn:
https://auctions.schloss-ahlden.de/en/?option=com_bidding&view=commission&layout=details&id=36446
And welcome to the board :)
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