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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: azelismia on September 30, 2008, 05:47:48 AM

Title: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: azelismia on September 30, 2008, 05:47:48 AM

I've seen this vase attributed to Loetz, Harrach and Legras online, none of these attributions seem one hundred percent sure of themselves though. I've seen enough of this line to think it wasn't a complete rarity. Someone must know who made it!

(http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/thefiresidecat/P1020273.jpg)

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/thefiresidecat/vaselilypad.jpg

http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/gg172/thefiresidecat/P1020274.jpg

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: Galle on October 01, 2008, 11:16:09 PM

Allow me to add Josephinenhütte to the list of suspects...  :huh:

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: azelismia on October 02, 2008, 01:08:07 AM

Didn't mean to leave it out but I couldn't remember how to spell it :)

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: azelismia on October 02, 2008, 02:23:48 AM

actually what made me think to post it here was that Mike has a piece on his website labeled Legras that is aventurine. it's got a bolder enamel but still, I hadn't seen a legras example of aventurine before.

http://www.manddmoir.co.uk/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/moir?opendocument&part=4

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: Ivo on October 02, 2008, 06:26:15 AM

FWIW green aventurine was and is a speciality from Reichenbach http://www.farbglas.de/ (note the fabulous colour chart on their website!) and few other glassworks have made it. Legras used green aventurine as a basis for low temperature enameling and gilding for certain, as did Harrach'sche probably - and various works in the Bavarian forest. Reichenbach supplied glass specialities worldwide - but Legras is a high probability.

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: azelismia on October 04, 2008, 02:44:06 AM

neat site Ivo. I hadn't seen that before. but it looks like their color chart is all the stuff they're putting out now so you can't really use it for historical purposes can you?

Title: Re: aventurine lily pad vase, who made it?
Post by: Ivo on October 04, 2008, 01:53:30 PM

at least you can use it for standard reference.