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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: evusa on January 21, 2009, 09:19:31 PM

Title: FOAM GLASS
Post by: evusa on January 21, 2009, 09:19:31 PM

Hi all! Please help me to identify this piece. It´s quite large, about 26 cm height, full of small bubbles. Thanks!

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: Frank on January 21, 2009, 10:43:09 PM

What is the rim like? hard to tell in images.

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: evusa on January 21, 2009, 10:45:36 PM

the rim is brown

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: evusa on January 21, 2009, 10:54:16 PM

more photo...

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: TxSilver on January 22, 2009, 01:22:50 AM

It is a type of glass the Italians call pulegoso. It is fairly common in mid-century Murano and Czech pieces. I don't recognize your vase, unfortunately. The sheen reminds me of some of the Beranek (Czech) pieces I've seen.

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: Ivo on January 22, 2009, 07:26:39 AM

This type of glass is extensively made in Egypt for the tourist industry. It is quite uneven and very light, normally it has a broken pontil but variations occur. There is a limited range of colours: brown, dark blue, green and white with a brown rim are the most frequent.  Some similar items are also made in Morocco.

Title: Re: FOAM GLASS
Post by: Sklounion on January 22, 2009, 09:34:19 AM

Hi,
Given your location, Beranek has to be favourite, particularly in this colour-way, for which the company is well-documented. If early, then possibly a design by Emanuel Beranek or Lichtagova? (Sorry I do not have the AKA exhibition catalogue from MGB to hand) However certain pieces were reproduced from the 1990s onwards and appear in later Beranek catalogues.

Marcus