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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: squizoid on January 27, 2010, 10:16:48 PM
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Jan Beranek Designed Knobbly Vases?
Hi, just wanting to confirm if these are Jan Beranek designed Knobbly Vases.
Smaller one is 7" and the taller 8", both have flat polished bases.
Mod: subject surname corrected
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The link below might help you clarify, (not just whitefriars) - setup by a fellow GMB member I believe. :)
http://whitefriarsknobblies.blogspot.com/
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Hi, yes, thanks, I have already been in touch with Emmi @ his Knobbly Blogspot (Great site). He thinks they could be, but we need confirmation from someone with more Czech Glass knowledge.
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Ummm Emmi's a her not a him. ;)
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oppps, my apologies to Emmi and all.
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Beranek is a closer spelling to the Czech glass making family (excepting, as we tend to do, for keyboard reasons, the accent on the "a"). I collect Skrdlovice when I can and there are quite a few similar patterns, see Magnor and Skrdlovice thread on GMB archive, for examples. I would be hesitant to suggest this is a Beranek pattern on these vases, though the heights and bases and colours seem OK, I have not seen these vases as Beranek patterns before. I can try to canvass Jindrich later in the week for his view though, to double check, sorry not to be more helpful!
Robert (bOBA).
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Hi, thanks for the info Robert, hopefully someone can positively identify these.
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Hope you don't mind me resurrecting this thread( found it on page 8 or 9) but my interest in knobbly vases is not just confined to Whitefriars, and I would rather like to know the maker of these two in particular. Can anyone help please?
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Sorry, I did contact Jindrich about these a while ago and he agreed with me, thinking that they were not Skrdlovice, he may add more information when he sees this post though,
Robert bOBA
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Thank you Robert, I am grateful for your original reply of course but just trying to pin these down once and for all! :)
thanks
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Bumping this thread for attention.
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Just bumped into this old thread- wanted to say I believe these are from Estonian Tarbeklaas. The colouring is very typical. I think the design is called ASTER.
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Interesting, px... To be honest, Estonia would have never crossed my mind.
I found an Estonian antiques site with these vases and other glass: http://www.eantiik.com/products/klaas/tarbeklaas
The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design also gives an interesting history of Estonian glass: http://www.etdm.ee/en/muuseum/klaasikogu/
Well done, px! :)
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Thank you px for finding the id - great sleuthing
and Anik for posting the links :)
I've seen a number of vases on there that I recognise and will now know where they were made.
I'd been searching for a green vase a friend has, that has similar pulls but unfortunately that isn't on there, so the search continues.
m
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Thanks px and Anik for the great info! :)
And like m I did recognize some pieces on that site which I have seen in the past, and had wondered if they might be Czech.
As the Tarbeklaas pieces seem to be nicely made and well documented (designer, date, range) I think their output will probably be a collectible of the future...
Michael
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px, thanks for a really unexpected attribution. It's certainly solved a few problems for me.
And thanks to Anik for following up with two very useful links.
According the Estonian version of Wikipedia, Maks Roosma, the founder of the Estonia art glass, studied in Czechoslovakia before WW II. I wonder if he maintained contact after the war, as a few of the pieces in Anik's links look influenced by Skrldovice. I suppose, given the geographical location of Estonia, Aseda or Magnor could also be the influences.
David
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So......am I safe to have changed the attribution of the photo I have on my knobbly blog to maker Tarbeklass, Estonia? For those that do not know my blog, the picture is right at the end........