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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: glassobsessed on December 10, 2009, 10:07:18 PM

Title: Lalique frosted Bear? Maybe not
Post by: glassobsessed on December 10, 2009, 10:07:18 PM

Just noticed this listing and these bears seem a long way from home.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FROSTED-GLASS-DISH-MOULDED-R-LALIQUE-MARK_W0QQitemZ320457630533QQihZ011QQcmdZViewItem

Looks very much like (OK it is) a design by Karel Zentner for Libochovice, so they speak Czech not French, see page 19 of Sklo Union Art Before Industry by Marcus Newhall.

Or did Rene make copies! :chky:

John

Title: Re: Lalique frosted Bear? Maybe not
Post by: Mosquito on December 10, 2009, 11:14:40 PM

Oh dear - I wonder how the signature has been added, it looks quite messy? I've seen a lot of Schlevogt/ Desna items with sandblasted Lalique marks before, as well as a fake moulded mark on a Consolidated glass plate which had been built up out of some kind of resin. Never seen a Lalique mark on a Libochovice item before though...

Here's another piece of 'Lalique' I spotted recently: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400088377550 the idiot who dremelled this once beautiful Jobling Jardiniere has even managed to spell 'France' incorrectly.....