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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: rocco on January 06, 2011, 11:51:42 AM
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I bought this small asymmetrical yellow vase yesterday, certain that it was by Aloys F. Gangkofner for Hessen-Glas.
I am still quite sure about that, but was a little bit surprised that this shape is not depicted on Oliver's great site http://www.kristallglas-oberursel.net/Text/ProdukteHessenglas_Gangkofner.html (http://www.kristallglas-oberursel.net/Text/ProdukteHessenglas_Gangkofner.html).
Height around 16cm, four-sided stand, polished base.
Thanks,
Michael
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Hi Michael!
Unfortunately it´s not in the Gangkofner book either. Personally I´ve put the very same vase amongst my
confirmed designs and from the colour, style and finish of the top rim and base I don´t see the slightest
reason to put it elsewhere... :)
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Thank you very much, Dirk!
I was hoping for some proud owner of the Gangkofner book :)
Too bad it isn't in there...
Perhaps Oliver can clear this up one day.
Is yours the same colour as mine?
Michael
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Yes, same colour.
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Very nice collection!
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Thank you! :) To be honest, they weren´t love at first sight. One of my favourite traps: Buy a piece
for resale. Once you own it, a second one will come along soon. You start to like them a bit. Third
piece - done, you´ve started another collection! :thud:
Meanwhile I´ve grown quite fond of them. They are so very 50´s and yet so special IMHO.
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Hi Dirk,
I have to admit that this is my first Gangkofner vase from this range (not a confirmed one, unfortunately). Had only seen pictures of them so far, and quite liked them -- but I like almost everything whith a "modern look for its time" :)
My only other piece by Gangkofner is one of those big jug-like vases in purple, which is also very fifties (and quite pretty).
But not so bad a collection for someone like me who has heard of Aloys F. Gangkofner for the first time only a few months ago :)
Greetings
Michael
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Hi Michael,
very interesting vase, looks indeed very "Gangkofnerlikely" but I regret I have never seen this shape before.
The colour looks very much like Hessenglas-champagne too, but the shape is definately not documented in the Hessenglas-context so far. I´ll show the pictures to former glasworkers, maybe somebody recognizes it. Every now and then a new Hessenglas-Gangkofner-shape appears which was not documented so far.
But for shure there were also other companies producing in Gangkofner-style. I bought one asymetrical perfume bottle
in this typical Gangkofner-style, which I found some time later again with an "austrian" label on it, which I have not identified yet.
Your vase may very well be from austria too. I´ll search for the label-picture..
@ Dirk: very nice collection, especially the "neurot´ische schwangere Jungfrau" makes me jeallous.. :o
Greetings from Oberursel, Oliver
www.kristallglas-oberursel.net
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Thanks for your reply, Oliver! I´m curious, what they´ll say about this design. :)
I think I saw an ebay listing from Austria, too. Perhaps they were a wholesaler?
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Thank you very much, Oliver!
As I bought this vase in Vienna, an Austrian origin is surely possible! It may well be that some Austrian company produced items in the style of Gangkofner.
But I have seen quite a few labeled Hessen Glas pieces here in the last months, so at least they seem to have been widely imported here...
Michael
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Hi Oliver
Did you manage to get any further with this design? :)
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Hi Dirk,
not yet, not enough time, just preparing an exibition about Hessenglas and the Gablonzer-industry in the Taunus region.
But next week I meet the former administrator of Hessenglas-Pattern-books; I keep this topic on my mind and the picture
of the champagne-coloured vase with me.
As far as I can remember, it was the company Lux-Glass from Austria, who produced also in Gangkofner style. By mistake I bought a
perfume bottle which I believed to be from Gangkofner/Hessenglas. The comparison to the Hessenglas-Pieces tought me better; there were only slightest
differences in shape; even the amethyst-colour of HG was almost reached. I was pretty much surprised, as you can imagine. :ho: I searched a little at the sellers
reviews and finally found the second atomizer of a vanity set which was marked by "Lux-Glass". I wouldn´t be surprised, if LUX also produced those vases, in fact Michaels vase was found in Austria too. So far Lux was only known to me as a producer of fine crystal in venetian style...
Maybe next week, we know more. I keep on tracking, I promise...
Oliver
www.kristallglas-oberursel.net
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Thanks for the detailed info, Oliver! Lux Glas is indeed a surprise... I´d never had thought
of them as a possible maker.
p.s.: There´s no envelope icon in your profile. Would you mind sending me a pm? ;)
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Hi Dirk,
all icons are attached now, full contact information you can also find
at my impressum-page.
Oliver