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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Scandinavian Glass => Topic started by: twenty21 on December 01, 2008, 12:52:53 AM
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Hell everyone
I am posting a couple of pictures of a small yellow (uranium glass) BODA bottle with a "bubble" motif on its shoulders in the hope of getting some more information about it such as designer, production date, etc. Any additional information would be very appreciated.
Thanks! Carlo
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Just to suggest a place to start, I'd put forward Erik Hoglund in the 60's. I haven't seen a Hoglund piece like this, but, of the people who worked for Boda at the time, this decanter/bottle seems closer to Hoglund's work. However, I'd expect something to be scratched on the bottom, an "H" and some numbers, for example. What's on the label and what's does the quality of the glass look like (bubbles and striations, for example)?
David
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Hi, it's designed by Bertil Vallien, for Boda-Afors circa late '60s
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Thanks heaps for your quick feedback. I was sure I had seen this bottle featured in one of my reference books but could not find it again...Martyn K, have you seen this illustrated anywhere? Just to reply to your questions, David. The label reads BODA. The quality of the glass is quite high, I could find only a tiny tiny bubble near the base. There are no signatures or inscriptions anywhere. The base has a polished pontil. :thup:
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The Vallien attribution makes much more sense than my Hoglund. I've certainly seen Vallien pieces without any designer's name on them. What drew me to Hoglund was the stopper, as I have seen a Hoglund decanter with the same stopper, but the stoppers are pretty standard. The earliest catalogue I have from Kosta Boda is 1986 and it's not in that.
David
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Here's ours....just a label to the base.....there is another similar on ebay I think.
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Hello again David
Following the Bertil Vallien lead I have done a few searches and I have found that a vase version of this vase is currently produced by Kosta Boda and Bertil Vallien is the attributed original designer...see link for new items for the BUBBLES VASE
http://www.exava.com/shop?q=bubble+glass+vase&pid=650234567&bskuid=529070484 (http://www.exava.com/shop?q=bubble+glass+vase&pid=650234567&bskuid=529070484)
Thanks heaps!! :hiclp:
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Interesting! I had checked the 1986, 1992, 2000, and 2002 catalogues and it wasn't in it. And there it is on Kosta Boda's current web sit. That's a huge gap between its original introduction and its current incarnation. I wonder if the stopper on your piece was part of the original design.
David
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Is it my imagination or does Carlo's have a clear bit in its neck and Martyn's doesn't?
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Definitely not your imagination, as healthy as I hope it is. They are different. Interesting, too, that the version in the current catalogue is different again. See http://www.kostaboda.us/bodybubbles/bbnevadamix.htm. So there are at least three quite distinct variations over thirty plus years. Yet I haven't seen any of these around. Or is this just another of my blind spots?
I must admit that I'm some times a little puzzled by Vallien's popularity. Is it primarily a question of affordability? I suppose I'm looking more to be educated than to start a debate.
David
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Ours is 23cm high....I hadn't thought that ours was uranium glass, but some sort of heat-reactive glass that would explain the slight difference.
This is another 'Unik' version of the same idea on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sign-UNIK-Vase-BERTIL-VALLIEN-Boda-Afors-SWEDEN_W0QQitemZ260254406649 though he has his dates mixed up.
And a little production bottle of a similar form with stopper http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BODA-BOTTLE-DU-AR-BJUDEN-DESIGN-BERTIL-VALLIEN_W0QQitemZ350018683979
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Martyn, yours looks like uranium glass over amber at the top, don't think there's any heat reactive glass though
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Hi, you know much better than I do Christine...there's no casing involved the colour just changes through green to deep amber(ish) to green opal on the extremities of the shoulder and lip, heat-reactive is probably the wrong terminology...opalescent??
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Hmm, you could be right. It does seem as if its heat treated. I thought from the photo that the "green opal" was a photographic effect you sometimes see with uranium glass. Does it have that bright green glow under UV?
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Unfortunately I don't have a UV light, the photo was taken in daylight but it doesn't look particually different in artificial light...I'll get it out of it's box tomorrow and have another look as it's dark now.
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Yes, the yellow/uranium colouring in the neck of the bottle is very diluted (see picture) and the same can be said (but it is not so obvious) of the bubbles on the shoulder of the bottle. My bottle is only 19cm high by the way. Thanks for all the info and interesting discussion.
Carlo
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Carlo, have you checked yours under a UV light? I'm not entirely convinced the colorant is uranium
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mmm no I have not....I just assumed it was since it is extremely intense in the thicker parts (like the base) but the clear section make me wonder. I have to think how to get access to a UV light and I will report back...
:hb1:
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Christine,
I had another look in the sun today and it does appear a greener in the daylight and more amber in artificial light, but not very dramatically...I'll have to get that UV light for Christmas!!