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Title: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: Pip on May 12, 2007, 09:01:33 PM: Hiya, this isn't my vase (or photographs) but the person who owns this has asked me to post it up here in the hope that someone can help with an ID. It is etched with the figure of a little boy and there is a signature and something else on the base - we think one of them says something 'Karlsen'. The photographs are not mine and, although clear they may be a little small however if you could have a look and let me have any thoughts at all the owner would be grateful (I'm also curious myself)... TIA

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7008
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7007
http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-7006
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please
Post by: Pip on May 15, 2007, 08:54:47 AM: bumpetty bump ;D

No ideas on the siggy?
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please
Post by: Leni on May 15, 2007, 09:21:08 AM: Not my area, but the sig looks like L Klower - or Flower? And J Karlsen. Not sure if this is any help :-\
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please
Post by: Pip on May 15, 2007, 09:25:13 AM: That does help Leni - thanks.
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please
Post by: Frank on May 16, 2007, 11:18:15 AM: Klöwer (kloewer) Karlsen are both Danish. Perhaps an independant engraver, blank could be Danish. Pictures are rather small though.
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please
Post by: Pip on May 16, 2007, 11:26:05 AM: Yes they are rather small - sorry about that but they're not mine unfortunately. I'll tell the owner what you said about the vase though - cheers Frank.
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: shandiane78 on May 17, 2007, 05:45:51 PM: Hi, this is Shannon (the owner of the vase). Those were actually my thumbnail pics! Here are the full size photos:

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles2.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles4.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles5.jpg)

Thanks for creating this thread for me pip!

For anyone giving it another look...I don't know if you can tell in the pics, but the base has controlled bubbles. Thanks for any leads you can give me!

Shannon
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: shandiane78 on May 17, 2007, 07:17:26 PM: Also, I think the first siggy is L. Klöner. Other one...J. Karlsen? T. Karlsen? F. Karlsen? They look like they are in the same hand. Is that strange?

Thanks again,
Shannon
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: Pip on May 17, 2007, 07:26:31 PM: Hi Shannon - the big pictures are much clearer, thanks for that. Hopefully someone will come along soon with some relevant information. Sometimes though it's not immediate and information can turn up in days, weeks or even months so keep checking back from time to time and don't give up!
Title: Engraved Scandinavian Vase. Signed, but who are these people?!
Post by: shandiane78 on October 30, 2007, 04:41:25 PM: This was posted here ages and ages ago, and someone suggested it might be Danish, because the names appear to be Danish. I would like to give it another try for ID. It has a double ground and indented base, and there is a ring of controlled bubbles. The glass is thick and heavy, and the vase is about 7" tall. Thanks!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles1-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles2-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles4-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v50/shandiane78/bubbles5-1.jpg

Moderator: Images converted to links and merged with original topic
Title: Re: Engraved Scandinavian Vase. Signed, but who are these people?!
Post by: Lustrousstone on October 30, 2007, 08:03:10 PM: Hi Shannon You're welcome to bring things to our attention again but you don't need to post again, just reply to your original thread to take it back to the top again. Moderator please, here's the original thread http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,13955.0.html (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,13955.0.html)
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: antiquerose123 on October 31, 2007, 10:19:48 AM: Wild guess....real wild...but could the second name be: S. C. karlsen....prehaps they over-lapped the C on the S when they wrote it....just a guess :-\

rose
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: alexander on October 31, 2007, 11:22:20 PM: The shape and controlled bubbles suggest Swedish or Norwegian to me,
the names don't really ring a bell, then again I know next to nothing about
scandinavian engravers.
Title: Re: Etched Vase - signature & ID help please (Danish ?)
Post by: Pinkspoons on October 31, 2007, 11:59:56 PM: Found details for a Danish glass artist called Jørgen Karlsen, although it's unlikely to be the same (possibly) J. Karlsen as signed on the vase, as this one seems to work only in kiln-formed glass.

But you never know! His contact details are here: http://www.glasnettet.dk/studio.asp?id=181

My own instinct is that the vase may be European - the shape and controlled bubbles remind me of vases I've seen that pop up regularly on German eBay.