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Title: Amber moulded deco vase with frog - suspect UK maker. ID = Aug. Walther
Post by: misha on January 21, 2015, 04:25:40 PM

Do you term this 'winged' or 'buttress' design?

I suspect a UK manufacturer but I have no idea where to start looking through design/catalogue files if I can find them on line. I hope an expert in the field here can quickly ID this one.

Clear amber colour, art deco design, vase with frog.
Square plinth base, form flairs to round internally. Less obvious shape transition on exterior due to 'wings' and vertical ribs.
[A similar 'wing' design is used on my upright phonograph cabinet circ.1919 and other furniture of that period... that pre-dates 'deco']
Four 'lugs' at rim, corresponding to wing alignment.
Acid etched panel decoration on 4 sides.

150mm H with 100mm Dia. max froggie.
6" and 4" ?   ???
Sorry, I don't have a single tape measure or rule here with old Imperial units.

Title: Re: Amber moulded deco vase with frog - suspect UK maker. ID = ??
Post by: pamela on January 21, 2015, 05:09:35 PM

Certainly Aug. Walther  SIGRID  (http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Sachsenglas-1952.212+B6YmFja1BJRD0yMTImcHJvZHVjdElEPTg4MzAmcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MjEyJmRldGFpbD0_.0.html)

 catalogue 1936, Tafel 79 (PK page 20/28)   (http://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2002-3-2-mb-walther-1936.pdf) is the first appearance.

 mine in rosalin  (http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/vasen/00216.html)

 :)

Title: Re: Amber moulded deco vase with frog - suspect UK maker. ID = ??
Post by: misha on January 21, 2015, 06:44:31 PM

Very nice surprise. I didn't realise I had German glass in the collection. 
Thank you.

So, catalogue seems to be dated 1952. 
The pattern was still in production up till that date?
Can they be production dated? There are no marks on this piece at all.
Perhaps by variations to mould design? There are vertical corner ribs of the square base on mine, not a feature shown in the 1936 nor 1952 catalogue.
Less of a roll over in the rim 'lugs' too.
Maybe mine is even later production if that design proved to be popular.

I couldn't see any 'frog' images in catalogue. More of a divider grid really.
Maybe mention is in German text that I can't read now.

edit:  found frog "Tosca - Einsatz"  -  10cm
http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Sachsenglas-1953.212+B6YmFja1BJRD0yMTImcHJvZHVjdElEPTg4NzImcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MjEyJmRldGFpbD0_.0.html (http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Sachsenglas-1953.212+B6YmFja1BJRD0yMTImcHJvZHVjdElEPTg4NzImcGlkX3Byb2R1Y3Q9MjEyJmRldGFpbD0_.0.html)

Also: 1954 catalogue shows base detail like mine. Change in Co. name too.