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Ivo:
there is no link at all between Jablonsky and LSA. LSA is a british based dealer who used to sell Krosno glass, now they spread their orders over various Polish glass makers. They sell to furniture and decorator outlets all over Europe - they're a brand name, not a glass maker, and their design activity is limited.
Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed.  No connection.

Leni:

--- Quote from: "Ivo" ---there is no link at all between Jablonsky and LSA. LSA is a british based dealer who used to sell Krosno glass, now they spread their orders over various Polish glass makers.
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Does this not include the Jablonsky Crystal factory?  I presumed this was the case as there is a link to their site in the page of the Polish Chamber of Commerce site which talks about LSA.  


--- Quote ---Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed.  No connection.
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Does the "" in the above quote mean you don't think it's really 'art' glass?  Can you say why?  

Also, I may be a cheapskate but $200 for a Jablonsky vase doesn't seem 'cheap' art glass to me!   :?  

When you speak of "quite considerable series", are you referring to what Adam Jablonsky himself makes, or what the factory which bears his name turns out?

I admit I am confused again now  :(

Leni

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: "Ivo" ---Jablonsky makes cheap "art" glass in quite considerable series, all pieces signed.  No connection.
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Good evening

Would appreciate what criteria you use in order to attach the label cheap "art" glass. Is this in relation to design, finish.originality and what quite are the distinguishing features you apply that actually determines a piece of glass as "art" glass, whether cheap or not. Would I be jumping the gun by suggesting that the argument would be difficult to justify in terms less than subjective.
The brevity of your comment would appear to suggest lacking in merit but I'm not sure that this was your intention.
 
Regards


Gareth


Morgan48

Frank:
Cheap has different connotations in different cultures and is not necessarily derisive.

It is generally accepted that Art Glass is glass produced by factories that goes beyond utility function and form. Be it designed by a named designer or a faceless one.

Glass Art refers to work that is produced by artists in the medium of glass.

Price has more to do with galleries for unestablished artists and reputation for successful artists. There are many artists using glass as a medium who produce very cheap items, plenty on eBay, but $200 is probably a median price for a piece of blown glass in a relatively straightforward manner and sold through a gallery.

Good, bad or indifferent is usually subjective. Some love the Drunken bricklayers art glass and others loathe it.

Ivo:
I'm sure they're honourable glass makers, I'm sure their intentions are sincere, but Jablonsky are the curse of the antique trade.  Picture an antique fair with 1500 stalls, and on 1000 stalls you see identical Jablonsky vases in three different sizes.  That is stretching the art in art glass. Worse than that, most dealers seem to think they are offering something exquisite and exclusive, in stead of lumpy and mass produced.  You were right to notice a slight hint of disapproval - I just don't like their products.

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