Topic: Help identifying Vase with Cut Out Red Overlay from Signature

[In2harmony]

Hoping that someone will recognise this signature on this Opaque Glass Vase with a red cut out overlay. I'm not even sure what the actual letters are, so I've included several photos with different lighting and angles. Thanks in advance.

[flying free]

I think it reads V Stifan?  or maybe V. Stefan?


It's lovely. Looks like cameo work to me.


This came up on ebay but no help
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162236415617

It could also be that the f is not an f but another letter ? It's differently formed to an f but that could just be style perhaps.
 Nothing comes up under either Stifan or Stefan.

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[In2harmony]

Many thanks Flying Free - I really appreciate your thoughts - you can get stuck on seeing the letters as one thing until a fresh pair of eyes takes a look.

Whilst the ebay listing could even be the same maker, like you say, it doesn't get me any further actually identifying the maker.

Hopefully someone else will recognise the signature and be able to give chapter and verse.

Thanks again.

[flying free]

I'm wondering if it might be worth writing to Ajka Crystal in Hungary and asking it it could be one of their pieces?

I don't know much about their work but I think I remember that some of their cameo pieces were signed.  It has some similarities with their glass as well.

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[In2harmony]

Thanks - I'll look in to it and add an update if I get a reply.

[Ivo]

Stikla, Steklo are words for glass in Slovenian, Russian, Latvian, and Lets. Check that neighborhood.

[flying free]

Ah!  Thanks Ivo.  I looked up Sticla as couldn't remember how to spell it!

[flying free]

it does look as though what looks like a curly V and then a curly N at the end could be artistic mirror-image flourishes with the word Stikla inscribed in between them.

The only Russian glasswork I could think of might be Gus Khrustalny :
https://russiatrek.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/crystal-museum-gus-khrustalny-russia-15.jpg

Could we see a closer picture of a larger section of the cameo please?  Just interested to see the depth of the cutting.  It looks fire polished on an acid etched background?

[chopin-liszt]

I'd tried googling N Stefan and cameo glass.
This came up.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/162236415617

[In2harmony]

Thanks again for replies.

Not really convinced that the first and last are just decorative as they are quite different and the first has a "stop" after it but I will keep it in mind in my search so thanks for thinking outside the box.

Here's another photo as requested - there is no great depth to the red.