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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 06:46:34 PM »
There is a small excerpt from the American Glass Review of 1923 which indicates things might have been a struggle for Josephinenhutte and other makers around that time.
In 1923 it says they merged the company with Fritz Heckert and Kynast-Kristall. 

https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/American_Glass_Review/gFXdxkOIjgYC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=josephinenhutte+and+fritz+heckert+glass&dq=josephinenhutte+and+fritz+heckert+glass&printsec=frontcover

It also says Rhenish-Westphalian glass handed notice to all their makers.

I don't know how strong the company was in 1929 but that was the year of the Great Depression.  Perhaps the range was launched but never got off the ground on a long term basis.

Erwin Pfohl returned to Novy Bor in the 1930s /1930? and remained there for the rest of his life from my understanding.


From the Eastman museum, some information about Dr Arthur Traube:
https://archives.eastman.org/agents/people/302
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 11:45:31 AM »
see page 181 and further on page 182 here for information on Erwin Pfohl.  If I have read that correctly he  only stayed at Josephinenhutte (Szklarska Poręba) for one year 1929.
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.muzeumkarkonoskie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dr-S.-Zelasko-SZLAK-SZKLA-.pdf

Source:Stefania Żelasko SZLAK SZKŁA NA POLSKO-CZESKIM POGRANICZU, SKLÁŘSKÁ STEZKA NA POLSKO-ČESKÉM PŘÍHRANIČÍ, THE GLASS TRAIL ON THE POLISH-CZECH BORDERLAND

'His younger brother Erwin Pfohl (1906-1976) took his place at Josephine. He was particularly talented and after graduating from the glass school in Bor he studied in Vienna and Paris. He stayed in Szklarska Poręba only for a year for the climate was too severe for him. He designed very modern, colorful projects which were launched at the end of the twenties of the 20th century. He introduced new techniques of decorating glass. He worked for Reich company in Berlin since 1930. In 1932 and 1934 he made artistic journeys to Paris.

Erwin designed for the Rachmann Brothers Company ....'


Obviously this doesn't preclude Josephinenhutte continuing to make the designs after he left however it could indicate they were only made for a short period of a year.  Which may explain why there are so few around.



I think the ebay photograph comes from this book:
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9783927218758/JOSEPHINENH%C3%9CTTE-Jugendstil-Art-D%C3%A9co-Moderne-3927218758/plp

The book was published in 2009,  16 years ago. 16 years is enough time for more to have come to light so it's curious how few have been found.
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 10:30:57 AM »
On the timeline of development for Ikora Crystal
Source: page 37 and 38, WMF Ikora and Myra Glaser, Burschel/Scheiffele
'...and this group made the first Ikora Crystal Collection for the 1927 Leipzig Trade Fair.'
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 09:17:12 AM »
see page 181 and further on page 182 here for information on Erwin Pfohl.  If I have read that correctly he  only stayed at Josephinenhutte (Szklarska Poręba) for one year 1929.
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.muzeumkarkonoskie.pl/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Dr-S.-Zelasko-SZLAK-SZKLA-.pdf

Source:Stefania Żelasko SZLAK SZKŁA NA POLSKO-CZESKIM POGRANICZU, SKLÁŘSKÁ STEZKA NA POLSKO-ČESKÉM PŘÍHRANIČÍ, THE GLASS TRAIL ON THE POLISH-CZECH BORDERLAND

'His younger brother Erwin Pfohl (1906-1976) took his place at Josephine. He was particularly talented and after graduating from the glass school in Bor he studied in Vienna and Paris. He stayed in Szklarska Poręba only for a year for the climate was too severe for him. He designed very modern, colorful projects which were launched at the end of the twenties of the 20th century. He introduced new techniques of decorating glass. He worked for Reich company in Berlin since 1930. In 1932 and 1934 he made artistic journeys to Paris.

Erwin designed for the Rachmann Brothers Company ....'


Obviously this doesn't preclude Josephinenhutte continuing to make the designs after he left however it could indicate they were only made for a short period of a year.  Which may explain why there are so few around.

Two have been found which match those in the two photographs (the vase in the Miller's book and the vase Steven first linked to on eBay): 

see here ebay vase -  13cm high  and 14,3cm wide.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/256910089263?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=Odl6IYYdRb-&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=TnRYvsRcQx6&stype=1&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=WHATS_APP
and
The Miller vase is 33cm high:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91UuFyCAYSL._SL1500_.jpg

Zelasko book photograph showing various sizes:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/cqwAAOSwp95oD5et/s-l1600.webp


For comparison my vase is 35cm high and 19cm wide  at widest point.

Two found are from the range (mine and I believe also the rolled rim marked 'Schneider' vase) but do not appear in the photographs. 

There are 13 other designs that appear in the two photographs of the 'flame' versions or those with melted flakes in (two vases the same colourway/shape appear in both photographs so I've counted those as repeats).

It perhaps moves the photograph of Vineta-Kristall by Dr Arthur Traube to 1929 from the given date of c.1925.
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 12:54:41 AM »
Thanks for adding the above info M, on my brief search I've also struggled to find out further info. The majority of references all seem to quote Stefania Żelasko.

On that note, just adding the below link for reference to an article written by Stefania Żelasko from 2010..

https://pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2010-2w-zelasko-jelenia-gora-jugendstil-2010-eng.pdf

Oops Erwin Pfohl was mentioned.  And mentioned as being at Josephinenhutte in the 1920s.  My apologies.
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 12:52:23 AM »
See Antonin Langhamer, The Legend of Bohemian Glass page 140
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Legend_of_Bohemian_Glass/UwLCa_h3hTEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=josephinenhutte+pfohl&pg=PA140&printsec=frontcover

He says Erwin Pfohl was a designer at Josephinenhutte (no date mentioned but post 1924 when he graduated) and 'returned to Novy Bor in the 1930s'. 

He studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts in Paris (post 1924 after he graduated).  The Schneider influence perhaps?
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 05, 2025, 12:12:10 AM »
...
I would describe my vase as being influenced by WMF Ikora (the new amazing dekor/'thing' launched that had to be be competed with ?) and Schneider jades.  Perhaps on his travels, Erwin was influenced by French Art Deco internally decorated glass?



The foot of two of the vases in the Traube photograph is interesting - it's very similar to the way the foot is formed on this Schneider vase from Fieldings:
https://fieldingsauctioneers.co.uk/lot/105061

see photo:
https://collections.eastman.org/objects/26986/arrangement-of-vineta-kristall-josephinenhutte-ag-in-seles;jsessionid=BD57D9CA1EC595889D03DE3C1AFB31CE?ctx=45d0c406-f2bf-4c0c-bd6a-0d8d66506713&idx=22
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Glass / Re: Art Deco green vase red 'flame' splotches - Schneider
« Last post by flying free on July 04, 2025, 11:01:23 PM »
going back to my links in this post here:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,37744.msg410290.html#msg410290

When I read and translate the quote from the book (Josephinenhutte - Stefania Zelasko) it appeared to say Erwin Pfohl introduced two ranges.  It then goes on to mention just one name, Vineta-Kristall.  So when I first read it, it appeared to me to be describing one range called Vineta-Kristall and  I wondered why the second range hadn't been mentioned.
I think it might mean that there were two ranges under the one name Vineta-Kristall because the pictures in the book and the photograph from Traube show two distinct dekors:  one like mine with flame splotches on it (described by Zelasko translated as 'melted flakes'); the other range with stripes on (described by Zelasko translated as 'filigree ribbons')

Quote from my previous post
 'Translating the information printed there describing the Vineta-Kristall range and using Google translate (very hard to enlarge to read script clearly though!) it appears to say:
'Consisting of numerous colored shapes, melted with flakes and filigree ribbons. This is a mass-colored crystal that, thanks to a special process, imparts seemingly random coloring.'


Also ...
There seems to be a third picture in the book but only the lower portion is visible: 
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/Q-cAAOSwE-FoD5eF/s-l1600.webp

That third picture could perhaps contain items like the blue striped bowl I linked to previously: 
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/81417-unsung-heroes-of-glass-2-erwin-pfohl

However this dekor is not shown in the Dr Arthur Traube photograph. Only items with the dekors shown in the bottom two pictures of the book are shown.
https://collections.eastman.org/objects/26986/arrangement-of-vineta-kristall-josephinenhutte-ag-in-seles;jsessionid=BD57D9CA1EC595889D03DE3C1AFB31CE?ctx=45d0c406-f2bf-4c0c-bd6a-0d8d66506713&idx=22

Musing here -  I wonder if the blue bowl has been wrongly id'd as being Vineta-Kristall because the description in original source lit might have mentioned 'melted flakes and filigree' and the dekor on the blue bowl 'could' fit that description unless the description refers to two different and separate dekors i.e. not melted flakes AND filigree stripes on the same piece? The quote definitely mentions two ranges and there are two dekors shown in the Traube photo and in the book but neither are the same as the blue bowl.

I would describe my vase as being influenced by WMF Ikora (the new amazing dekor/'thing' launched that had to be be competed with ?) and Schneider jades.  Perhaps on his travels, Erwin was influenced by French Art Deco internally decorated glass?

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