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Title: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: ckscot on December 07, 2009, 09:51:39 PM

Hello,
I wonder if anyone can give me any pointers with this vase?  Maybe I've just got Czechoslovakian glass on the brain, now that I've bought Mark Hill's book, but the concentric gilded rings remind me of the Borske Sklo vases in the book, although the shape is completely different.  The colours in the photos are pretty accurate, dark brown with two sets of 6 gilded bands.  It's 16 cm tall and 9.5 cm wide at the rim (6.25 " x 3.75"), weighs 470 grams.
Thanks, Iain

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 08, 2009, 07:24:20 AM

I would say that was Borske Sklo too. The shade of brown looks right. What's shown in Mark's book is only a minute proportion of what they produced.

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: ckscot on December 08, 2009, 10:35:59 AM

Thanks for that Christine.  Yes, Mark Hill's book has just whetted my appetite for the huge range of Czech glass around, we just don't see so much of it up north.

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Mosquito on December 08, 2009, 02:54:40 PM

Looks very similar to items I've seen attributed to Podbira: http://www.glaskilian.de/Podbira.656.0.html

Could it be related to my bowl here? http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,30090.0.html

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: ckscot on December 08, 2009, 05:23:13 PM

Yes, mine looks very like the little Podbira vase shown in the link.  I hadn't heard of them before so I will do a little bit of ferreting.  I can see how yours might be related to mine - a more glamorous sister maybe?  It's certainly a lovely bowl.

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 08, 2009, 06:32:22 PM

Haida = Novy Bor Are they the same company? One being the private pre-war company and the other the post-war nationalised company. Or did the styles for one feed the other?

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Jindra8526 on December 11, 2009, 06:59:32 AM

Haida is German name for Novy Bor.
Novy Bor - Haida was the biggest glass trade center in Bohemia, specialised glass school was/is there and many glassworks in the town and surrounded region before WWII. After war glasfactories had been nationalised and united to Borocrystal -> Borske sklo -> Crystalex.

Haida is not name of factory but just the city of origin.

Jindrich

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Lustrousstone on December 11, 2009, 07:44:53 AM

I didn't mean Haida was a company. Badly written sorry. Podbira was also, I believe, a refiner not a manufacturer.

Title: Re: Czechoslovak vase? Brown with gold bands
Post by: Drinkwater on October 06, 2014, 11:44:18 AM

I've got a vase in this style and I think it is Boom, Belgium.