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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: cubby01 on September 21, 2010, 03:13:36 PM
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All I know is my wife brought it home from an estate sale caked with crud. It cleaned up well and we don' think it's recently made.
What would you call the technique? Any leads on the maker?
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WMF, Ikora, I think.
Does it have an iridescent finish? I'm not quite so positive WMF used that.
The technique of producing that broken sort of effect has several names, I believe an official one is "primavera".
It is produced by dunking the hot, semi-blown gather into cold water, which cools rapidly and cracks all over the surface. It is then re-heated and reblown to stretch out the crackled effect.
It was used by WMF in their Ikora glassware range, by Monart for the Cloissonne range and in Mdina by Michael Harris to create their "crizzle" effect and Isle of Wight Studio Glass, where it is also called crizzle.
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Thanks Sue! I'll look deeper with those ideas.
It does have an iridescent finish.
-Buck
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Hi Buck and Sue!
I´m quite sure it´s not an Ikora piece. Any structures wether produced by dipping into solutions of metallic
salts or by moulding or / and dipping into powders would have been cased afterwards. Ikora pieces also have
a hot-formed rim (except the lamp-bases of course).
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>:D
Perhaps it was the burying of it in all the crud for a long time which caused the iridescence??????????
(That's how Roman and other really, really old glass gets it's finish, but I don't know how long it actually takes. WMF Ikora is Art Deco period.)
I'm sure you know a lot more than I do about WMF Dirk. I did have a little doubt. :-[
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Aww, Sue ... no need to :-[... :kissy:
I´ve seen a few on ebay.de over the years with different colour of the basis glass and always cased
with white, foamy crackle - luckily I´ve got one in uranium. :)
Some further examples here:
http://www.glaskilian.de/Krakeleeglas.658.0.html
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Thanks for the links Dirk!
Ahh, so maybe Bohemian '20s but probably not Loetz ;D
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This is tin crackle a technique extensively used by Leerdam and Maastricht in the late 1920s and 1930s. I agree it is not WMF - but only able to tell you what it is not....
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I did look at some Leerdam and Maastricht glass but didn't see anything very similar. I did see some tin crackle that is similar to some other glass I have and really appreciate the post.
I will add that the whitish areas are coarse and rough feeling. So far the closest combination of shape and texture I have seen online is via the link in the post by dirk. That site assume theirs was Bohemia (Czech)
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Reminds me very much of "Barak" glass which was marketed here in Australia.
Ross
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Hi Ross, thanks for the tip. I can't get the search engines to come up with anything... all the top hits for 'Barak glass' or 'barak art glass' or 'Australian art glass' with 'Barak' seem to assume I'm asking about the president of the USA. :huh: I even tried entering it with my best Aussie accent highly influenced by Paul Hogan and Colin Hay... still no luck. See I'm showing my age there eh. :D Is 'Barak' an art glass manufacturer or an importer?
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Good question, Cubby. Do not know for sure. Definitely not Australian art glass. Suspect it was Turkish from very vague memory. Only ever saw paper labels.
I also suspect it is BARAC not Barak. One vague reference re Ebay - but obviously out of date. There is a company "Barac International" locally that sells trophies and giftware - perhaps it was a distributor label.
Ross
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what about Royal Brierley studio ware? this is mine and signed but i did have another piece with just a sticker, maybe a long shot but another avenue.
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quite a different technique, really.
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Hi I think it is usually called schaumglas, which I believe is German for foam glass, Loetz made some and I have been told that several other firms like Zweisel? made some too. I have a Loetz one but it has coloured glass trailed through. It looks fragile from a distance but is quite a solid and chunky piece. Mine has the remains of a label so I know without doubt what it is but you could look on the Loetz website www.loetz.com
I have just looked and can only see two examples and both have colours.
Veronica
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Forgot to say that mine has no irridescence!
Veronica
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Three examples of Leerdam tin crackle from 1935.
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Thanks Ivo, is the Leerdam tin crackle fairly coarse? If so I may have tin crackle but from examples of Leerdam I've seen from searching the web I don't think mine is Leerdam. Same goes for the Maastricht pieces I saw Both makers are very nice and I certainly wouldn't mind running into one of those pieces.
-Buck
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Fairly course is a fair description. There are signed examples with proper finish, but there are many seconds out there which have a course unfinished bottom.