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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Andy on July 05, 2008, 03:38:57 PM
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Nice bowl, nice design. Looks familiar, 9 inches wide, 3 1/4" tall 1.1 kg.
Applied blue blob , pulled into 4 or 5 rings. Glass has an attractive yellow tinge to it.
Polished base, (signs of tool marks). Few bubbles and blemishes.
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Andy
;D
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My instincts, for no particular reason , are saying Dutch ? or maybe Scandinavian? :huh:
Andy
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Yellow tinge in older clear is sometimes associated with Hungarian, Austrian and Bohemian.
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Thanks Frank,
the yellow tinge is definitely purposely added, not just a tint to clear crystal.
Its not that old, probably late 20thC.
Andy
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My instincts, for no particular reason , are saying Dutch ? or maybe Scandinavian? :huh:
Andy
Dutch instincts say Polish, recent - based on the colour of the glass and on the finish of the bottom.
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Thanks Ivo ;D
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Found another with label :D
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=380052946056
Sandra Rich, googling , i believe its a German company, for general House furnishings, so
i expect modern eastern Europe seems most likely!
Cheers
Andy
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Similar stuff is offered by Krosno: http://www.krosno.com.pl/en/about_us/about_the_company/
Regards,
Marcus
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If Krosno SA then the unpolished base surprises me. The Krosno glassware I have owned has been superbly finished.
I don't see anything similar at the website. Maybe I just missed it; there's a lot there. There are several other glassworks in and around the town of Krosno and even more in the region. Ed.
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Hi Ed,
its difficult to see in my photo of the base, it is tooled and polished, its just got a matt finish,
I would think purposely.
Andy
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Oh How to explain this without sounding ....elitist or snobby.
The base is mat / matte / frosty looking because it hasn't been polished.
It hasn't been polished to save money.
Polished base is always preferable and is a sign that the item was designed for the upper end of the market.
Sure polished bases do get scratched eventually and todays mass consumers are not so fussy about minutiae like this but to a glass collector it's still important. That's the long and the short of it. Ed.
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Ed,
thanks, i quite understand what you mean.
Although, i was just searching on here for something else, (Anthony Wassell)
and i just read this thread,
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,6380.0.html
Quote from Leni on that thread,
'Don't assume China. I'm not saying it's not, but I have a Peter Layton paperweight with a matt finished base. I also have an Alistair Macintosh weight with a similar finish. And at Art in Action last week we saw Anthony Wassell pieces with the same sort of base.
Just to be quite clear, I'm not saying this piece was by any of those glass artists, just that too many people see the matt finished base and immediately say "Chinese". Other people than Chinese glass-makers do sometimes finish their work in this way. That's all I'm saying.'
Im sure, generally, Ed, that you are quite correct
Andy
;)
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Andy
You are quite right to point that out but there's a reason why what Leni said does not apply here. All the names she mentions are studio glass artists. Your bowl, I believe, was made at a larger glassworks or factory. I think thats the assumption we are all operating on here.
She was also talking about paperweights only and if the design of the weight is such that the base does not show through then it's rather pointless to polish it. She also doesn't mention if the weights were 1st quality, signed etc etc. Horses for courses.
An unpolished base is just a pointer to what it's not. Along with other indcations it may suggest certain countries but a complete list of countries which have produced glass finished in this way is probably rather long. Mexico for example ? Kazakhstan ? How exotic would you like to get ? LOL
It certainly doesn't necessarily mean Chinese. The last Chinese I saw in a shop was superbly finished.
Pete