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Title: Pressed glass footed vase/celery. - ID = Brockwitz, Zurich / Curved Star
Post by: flying free on January 04, 2011, 03:44:27 PM

This is a piece of my collection that I only ever use at Christmas.  It comes out with the decs and has a candle in it on the mantlepiece as it look fantastic backlit.
Does anyone have any idea of the age of this please?  and is it British?
I get the feeling it is quite an old piece but that is just instinct as I really haven't a clue ( ;D it'll probably turn out to be 1960's now)
many thanks
m

Title: Re: victorian? pressed glass footed vase/celery. What age?
Post by: Glen on January 04, 2011, 06:32:12 PM

No, it's not British. It is German, made by Brockwitz. Carnival collectors know it in blue and marigold and call the pattern Curved Star. The original name for the pattern was Zurich and a huge range of shapes was made in the pattern. You have a celery or traubenspuler (used for washing grapes). The shape has been called (in carnival) a Cathedral Chalice! (It's not one of those really!) Date of manufacture probably 1920s / 1930s.

See more on Brockwitz here.

http://www.thistlewoods.net/Germany.html

Glen

Title: Re: victorian? pressed glass footed vase/celery. What age?
Post by: flying free on January 04, 2011, 07:54:57 PM

Thank you Glen!  :)  I shall go and have a read and explore.
See I just knew it wasn't going to be Victorian  ;D but it does feel old.  
 
 I'm off to learn something :)
m

Title: Re: Pressed glass footed vase/celery. - ID = Brockwitz, Zurich / Curved Star
Post by: pamela on January 05, 2011, 08:03:08 AM

 :hi: Michelle

http://www.glas-musterbuch.de/Brockwitz-1915.66+B6YmFja1BJRD02NiZwcm9kdWN0SUQ9MjU1MCZwaWRfcHJvZHVjdD02NiZkZXRhaWw9.0.html

1915 is the oldest catalogue found so far, pattern may be also slightly older
 :sun:

Title: Re: Pressed glass footed vase/celery. - ID = Brockwitz, Zurich / Curved Star
Post by: flying free on May 07, 2011, 10:02:46 PM

Pamela, my apologies for the belated thank you.  I've only just seen your post whilst searching for something else.
So, maybe I wasn't so far off on age then  :sun:
thanks again
m