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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: Max on July 03, 2005, 06:52:29 PM

Title: Check it's Czech! - ID = Peceny for Hermanova hut'.
Post by: Max on July 03, 2005, 06:52:29 PM

I've been buying lot's of Czech (well, what I assume to be Czech!  :?  :roll: ) recently.  I'm really enjoying the turquoise and emerald greens that they do so well.

Here's one 'op-art' clear vase I bought today, and a particularly nice turq one I purchased last week.  Both vases have a deep well to the base.  The clear vase is 7" and the turq one 6".

Can anyone confirm these are Czech perhaps?  And can anyone recommend a book on modern Czech glass?  

Thanks!  :D

Pics of op-art vase below:

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10963
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-10962

Title: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Sklounion on July 03, 2005, 10:06:32 PM

Max,
your blue vase, what size?
This is one of Frantisek Vizner's earliest designs for Sklo Union. Hermanova Hut, Plzen. around 1962.
Size should be around 20cm high.

A nice purchase.

Re books, oooh you naughty girl, fancy not taking note of the reviews.

Ricke ed; Czech Glass 1945-80, Arnoldsche, 2005.
Antonin Langhamer, The Legend of Bohemian Glass 2003,
Petr Novy, Lisovane Sklo,
Petrova, Czech Glass, 2003
Petrova & Olivie, Bohemian Glass, Flammarion, Paris 1989
J Raban, Modern Bohemian Glass Artia, Prague, 1963

Not sure of the other piece, probably Czech/Polish, but not come across it anywhere else. Reminicent of Vizner, but the design does not ring bells.

Regards,

Marcus

Title: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Max on July 05, 2005, 04:39:53 PM

Thanks Marcus

Sorry I hadn't read the reviews...all those difficult names and places, it's just really hard going.  I should have taken more notice - sorry!   :oops:  :oops:

What I need is a book with lots of lovely pics of modern Czech glass in.   Not just the high-end stuff, but run of the mill production pieces that we are likely to encounter on our travels.

I'm not great at remembering facts, but gimme a picture and it embeds much more easily into my addled grey matter!   :D  :D  :roll:

Title: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Sklounion on July 06, 2005, 05:43:27 AM

J Raban, Modern Bohemian Glass, Artia, Prague, 1963, several copies shown on sale at www.bookfinder.com, priced between 40 and 108€.


Regards,

Marcus

Title: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Max on July 06, 2005, 12:10:53 PM

Thanks Marcus - I bought it!  Yippeee!  It'll take up to 8 weeks for delivery though - can I wait that long??!!  :D  :D

I'm really thrilled with a vase I received this morning.  Deep emerald green, internal vertical ribbing and external horizontal ribbing - it's FABulous darling!   :D  :D

Title: Re: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Max on October 02, 2008, 05:28:57 PM

Yarrrrrr...I don't have the blue one anymore, but I do have the op-art type one somewhere...probably in the shed of doom.  I'll get it out tomorrow and add it.   :)

Title: Re: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Max on October 13, 2008, 08:01:13 PM

Okaaaay!  I went and rummaged out my old external hard drive (back of saucepan cupboard of course) and found the pics.  Yippee for me!   :D :hiclp:  lol

Added at top.

Title: Re: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Anne on October 14, 2008, 02:41:08 AM

 :hiclp:  Yay! well done Max!   :hiclp:

(Doesn't everyone keep their external hard drives in the back of the saucepan cupboard....?)  :thup:

Title: Re: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Sklounion on October 14, 2008, 10:29:31 PM

And of course the op-art one is Czech, by Peceny for Hermanova hut'.
Regards,
Marcus

Title: Re: Check it's Czech!
Post by: Max on October 15, 2008, 06:51:28 AM

Thanks Marcus.  :D