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Title: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 07, 2010, 04:24:18 PM

Please can anyone help me to identify this small vase - just 10cm tall but very thick and heavy.  The base is flat and unmarked. 

Thank you.

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: paulbowen on June 07, 2010, 11:58:58 PM

I believe this was made by Lausitz, in Germany.  The company actually has a more complicated name, I just can't remember the details.  Usually the pieces are seen with a controlled bubble pattern of rings of large bubbles.  Date would be circa 1950.

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 08, 2010, 10:42:50 AM

Thank you, Paul.  Are you aware of examples of this style of glass or similar with labels for Stolzle Lausitz?  I was only aware of their stemware, etc.   I had thought my little vase might perhaps by Scandi or something  :-\

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: paulbowen on June 08, 2010, 02:30:33 PM

Hello, no, I haven't seen Lausitz pieces with labels.  They are shown in a book that I have seen on Lausitz glass.  Good luck.

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 08, 2010, 02:45:05 PM

Thank you  :)  I would be interested to know the title & details of the book.  The only thing I have found out about Lausitz glass is that Wilhelm Wagenfeld designed for them in the 1930's & 40's. 

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Ivo on June 08, 2010, 03:00:57 PM

Lausitz is a region, not a glassworks - so I think you'd have more luck if you googled Weisswasser, the tableware producer which was taken over by Austrian giant Stölzle Oberglas a few years ago. But there may have been some confusion - the blue vase could be WMF or Zwiesel rather than Weisswasser.  Zwiesel is in Northern Bavaria, WMF in Württemberg.

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 08, 2010, 03:25:59 PM

Thank you, Ivo.  I am now widening my search as you suggest  :)

I was intrigued by this little vase which was sold as Whitefriars, although I knew it was not.  It does however closely resemble the shape of a Whitefriars vase which I collect, model number 9364, which was designed by William Wilson and which first appears in the 1949 catalogue (although many catalogues from the '40's are missing, so it could be earlier) http://www.whitefriars.com/catalogues/contents.php?id=10447   I guess I was wondering if this was a copy, or a precursor, or simply a parallel design idea!   

Thanks for your help. 

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Anne on June 08, 2010, 05:50:35 PM

Pamela has a catalogue named as Lausitzer Glas on her Glas-Musterbuch site, it's under VLG in the German section if that's any help?  http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/VLG.16.0.html

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: chriscooper on June 08, 2010, 07:02:37 PM

Hi Leni, I too thought is it? hope you 'saved' on postage ;D
Chris

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 08, 2010, 07:10:22 PM

Thank you Anne, I'll have a look  :)

Yes, Chris.  As you spotted, the seller was a virtual 'neighbour' so I was able to drop in and collect it!   ;D   

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: paulbowen on June 10, 2010, 02:18:11 AM

Although similar, I do not feel that this is a WMF product.  I am unaware that Zwiesel made vases shaped like this, but do not know with certainty.  Additionally, given that the products of both of those manufacturers tend to be "cluthra" types of glass, and that this vase is monochrome, without any bubbles, again causes me to doubt them as the source.  The base of this vase looks very much like the Lausitz wares shown in the book.  I'll have to see if I can dig up the title of the Lausitz book, but it will take a while.

Title: Re: Small but heavy cased blue vase
Post by: Leni on June 10, 2010, 08:45:38 AM

Thank you, Paul.  I would appreciate that  :) 

Anne, I have looked at the catalogue on Pamela's site, but didn't see anything there like my vase - but thank you for the link  :)