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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: dirk. on March 25, 2010, 04:51:33 PM
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This one seems to have the right shape for an Easter riddle.
It´s made of an almost black amberish brown, heavily cased with controlled bubbles between
the layers and a tiny opening. Anyone hazard a guess???
It´s ca. 14cm tall and weighs almost exactly 2kg.
I´ll give one or another clue later... ;D
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Adam Jabłoński???
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Sorry, but no! :angel:
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scandinavian?
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Perlora, Hineri, Rigoleau?
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Nope, so far. Not scandinavian, Perlora, Hineri or Rigoleau. (I must admit I haven´t heard of
the latter and consulted ´glass fact file a-z´ by I. Haanstra. Do you mean ´Rigolleau´of
Argentina?)
I hadn´t expected to get this far without the usual question ´Can we see a picture of the base?´.
For dramatic reasons I reserved it for later. Is a clue or does it confuse things further?
The base is perfectly concave, ground and polished, with the slightest 1mm ground ring.
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Poschinger?
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Pairpoint / Gunderson ?
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Ysart?
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I'll give it one more try... Gunnel Nyman? :-\
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Cadbury's?,well...I'm not very good with pwt's,
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Thanks for all your responses!
Seems you´ll need a final clue. I must admit this really is a hard task! I´ve searched this board
and only found very few mentions of this glassworks.
It was located less than 100km from where I live now. I´ve bought that vase from a daughter
of one of the workers there. Although the label´s fallen off, she assured me it had been in it´s
place until last year and there´s absolutely no doubt about the attribution. I´ve asked three
times to be absolutely sure.
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No clue -- Hungarian? or Chinese? :24:
Have you posted in before in PW - should we go through everything there to find an answer (?) then the joke would be on us..
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Thanks for all your responses!
Seems you´ll need a final clue. I must admit this really is a hard task! I´ve searched this board
and only found very few mentions of this glassworks.
It was located less than 100km from where I live now. I´ve bought that vase from a daughter
of one of the workers there. Although the label´s fallen off, she assured me it had been in it´s
place until last year and there´s absolutely no doubt about the attribution. I´ve asked three
times to be absolutely sure.
Using Google Map here ---- Gütersloh ? Rietberg ? Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock? Steinhagen? Rheda-Wiedenbrück ?????
If I were to guess ONE - I say: Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock.....It would be :24: if I was in the right area since I am from Canada and do not have a clue of the area at all...
:24:
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Close, Rose... ;D (try google earth, I´ll wait by the window to wave at you)
The answer is: Richard Süssmuth / Immenhausen. Mainly known for their stemware and
thin-walled glass, vases and decanters. Unfortunately I can´t give you a date for this
vase... One thing I´ve learned here is: The answer is out there! Let´s see how long it
will take to find it!
Thanks for all of your contribution!
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Dirk:
Thank goodness I read this thread after the solution had been given. I have a Richard Süssmuth vase and I would have never have guessed from that, as it's quite a fine, engraved piece. Would it be the same time period as Perlora?
David
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Hi David,
hard to tell without a picture and a bit out of my comfort zone, too. How do you know it´s a
Süssmuth piece, is it labelled?
Richard Süssmuth already ran a glassworks in Penzig / Silesia, before he moved to Immenhausen
in 1945. Does the engraving or the glass have an Art Déco look?
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Dirk:
Yes, it does have an Art Deco look. The vase is pictured on p. 229 of Helmut Ricke 'Glass Art,' where it is described as "smoky brown glass, mold-blown. Base and rim ground. Decoration in polished miter cut: six stylized sea gulls above double wavy line." It was made by Glashütte Richard Süssmuth. I'm not a big Art Deco collector, but I like this piece and so have been looking for more Süssmuth, without much luck. So thanks for the original post. I've taken a quick and dirty picture of the piece, which I'll attach FYI.
David
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What a lovely piece! I like those really stylised and reduced cuts. Thanks for sharing!
Does the Ricke book give a concrete date?
There´s another great piece on ebay at the moment:
here (http://cgi.ebay.de/RICHARD-SUssMUTH-Art-Deco-Vase-glasschnitt-gazellen_W0QQitemZ300400277481QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGlas_Kristall?hash=item45f14077e9)
I´ve only got one further Süssmuth piece and it´s a rather unspectacular mould-blown
vase from around 1960. (I´ll have to rummage... )
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Dirk:
Glad you like it, as I certainly liked your piece. The Ricke book dates the form to 1936-7 and the decoration to 1928.
David
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Here´s the other vase I mentioned; something quite different again. I wonder what answers would
turn up, if we´d put the three of them together and ask people, what they think these pieces got
in common. ;D
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Now that's even more different. Great idea for the three pieces. My reply would be, "Made of glass in the 20th C, or thereabouts."
Thanks, Dirk.
David