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Costebelle Vase and the possible Etling Connection

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Mosquito:
After looking into glass marked 'Costebelle' when researching Legsy's penguin patterned pot (https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,73414.0.html), I've dug out a small mould-blown opalescent vase or lamp base from my collection in a pattern which has also been seen with the mark 'Costebelle'.

The vase stands approx 13 cm tall by 6 cm in diameter at the base. There is a faint 'Made in France' moulded mark to the underside. This example has no other apparent mark, but a pair of these mounted as lamps were sold on Ebay Fr with clear moulded 'Costebelle' marks. Sadly that listing has since expired, but for now a photo from the listing showing the mark can be found here: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/yjoAAOSwvzZlVjB7/s-l1600.jpg

Interestingly, on my vase the area where the Costebelle mark would be has a noticeably rougher texture (last pic. below), possibly suggesting the mark was removed from the mould.

So far I cannot find a great deal about Costebelle. As I noted in the above post, Ivo's book lists a Verreries de Costebelle who specialised in lighting. However, there also appears to be an Etling connection as several lidded boxes in known Etling commission designs are also sometimes seen with the moulded Costebelle mark.

Does anybody know more about Costebelle? Are these opalescent/frosted piees from Verreries de Costebelle or were they made at Choisy-le-Roi as the Etling pieces are believed to have been?

Some more Costebelle glass can be seen in the thread here: http://placedelours.superforum.fr/t6782-vide-poche-aux-pingouins-costebelle

Also, the motif on this vase may be related to that on a lidded box which is also seen sometimes with Etling marks and sometimes with the 'Costebelle' mark: https://www.antique-shimaisha.com/product/1229 Etling's 274 'Boy and ball' pattern: https://projetetling.wikidot.com/etling274boyball

Mosquito:
Some more pictures:

Mosquito:
And here's another related piece: a lidded box with a floral motif to the lid. This one is apparently unmarked, but the pattern is known with both Etling (https://projetetling.wikidot.com/etling278) and Costebelle marks.

flying free:
A tiny bit of possible information here about a bonbonniere also linked to S. Reich & Co (you may already know this as it references Project Etling) -
https://reartdeco.ch/costebelle/
It says

'... However, a bonbonniere marked with ‘Etling 277’ is found in the Etling cataligue http://projetetling.wikidot.com/etling277. It makes it guess that Costebelle was an Artist (artistic name) who worked for Etling Project, like Georges Béal.

It is also known that same design was also included in a trinket set produced by S. Reich & Co. (PDF), which was produced in 1934.'

As an aside I've just read on another site that one of the designers for Etling was Loetz.

flying free:
and a question re the Made in France mark - would it have been for export ware or was there a requirement to mark items 'made in France' by law for the French sales market?

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