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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: style-invasion on April 22, 2011, 07:03:00 PM

Title: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: style-invasion on April 22, 2011, 07:03:00 PM

(http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/91/42/18/th/p1170437.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1165&u=15914218)     (http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/91/42/18/th/p1170438.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1166&u=15914218)     (http://i21.servimg.com/u/f21/15/91/42/18/th/p1170511.jpg) (http://www.servimg.com/image_preview.php?i=1167&u=15914218)

polished pontil, clear base....
I've seen this one somewhere....
finnish? or german??
is it gral???
help would be great!!!
thanks for trying :hiclp:

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: Ivo on April 22, 2011, 07:18:15 PM

Zwiesel I think. I recognise the shape...

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: paulbowen on April 23, 2011, 01:53:34 AM

Looks like a Zwiesel piece to me as well.   :chky:

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: astrid on April 23, 2011, 05:50:16 AM

Hans Theo Baumann made either these or very similar looking ones in this particular colour for Gral-glas in 1966 (pattern F468).

I'm comparing it to a photograph of the Gral-glas book on page 108. However, the neck in your photograph seems to be slightly longer. That might either point to a different maker like Zwiesel, or to the fact that the pictures are taken from a different angle, making the neck look shorter. No measurements are given, and I can't seem to find the corresponding pattern book sadly.

Astrid

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: dirk. on April 23, 2011, 03:37:27 PM

I´m rather confident it is Gralglas. I´ve seen it in two sizes so far, so that
might explain the slight difference to the photograph in the book.
It´s one of my favourite designs BTW...  :)

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: paulbowen on April 23, 2011, 07:46:59 PM

Astrid, I didn't know there was a Graal Glass book.  Could you please provide the title, author, publiching info, etc?  Thank you.

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: astrid on April 23, 2011, 08:30:20 PM

Title: Gralglas - Deutsches Design 1930-1981
Autors: Helmut Ricke, Wilfried van Loyen, Xenia Riemann
Publisher: Deutscher Kunstverlag Museum Kunstpalast

link: http://www.amazon.de/gralglas-Deutsches-1930-1981-Xenia-Riemann/dp/3422070133/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1303590526&sr=1-1

There is an exhibition tied to the book in the Hentrich Museum (at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, Germany), until the 29th of May
http://www.museum-kunst-palast.de/mediabig/1129A/index.html

I still have to visit myself, but I'm definitely planning to (finally got my German environmental car label in today to be able to drive into Düsseldorf...)

Astrid

Title: Re: blue glass with clear base and polished pontil...help woulf be nice
Post by: paulbowen on April 23, 2011, 09:02:51 PM

Thank you Astrid, you're the best.   :hiclp:   :rah:   :sun: