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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: norman warbreck on November 06, 2009, 04:01:16 PM
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this piece as seen in the pic is of an etched angel and its signed M.K (nineteen eighty).
Could this a piece by Marta Kerhartova....who worked in functional pieces as well as etched glass.
Any ideas please.
best
norman
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If it were her, Norman, I"d be expecting a full signature, and if only initialled, with the initials in the reverse order. (KM, though one early piece is known with MK, but that dates to the 1950s) Nor, it has to be said, is the decor stylistically typical of her work, usually very fine and complex, line engraving. Is it sand or bead-blasted decoration, or etched? It seems very crude, using a simple resist technique, but what appears to be a Czech blank, was used. Unless Jindrich thinks otherwise, I would not get too excited.
M
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Hi M
have looked at this seriously and it is etched with lines in a downward stroke...technique.Never had a known piece in my hand to compare but i guess u are right with the ....not great quality work.The bohemian source that i have simply mentions her etched work...no specifics but with two pictured examples which are rather abstract designs.....but who knows she may in her later years have gone all...angelly...smile.
Have found no evidence of her still working around nineteen eighty.
thanks for looking and advise
best
norman