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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Germany => Topic started by: dirk. on September 18, 2011, 02:45:54 PM
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Just a bit show and tell... :) Required these pieces from the private possession of
Günther Hofmann, who´s the last living of the Gralglas designers. I was able to
contact him via his daughter recently, who sold some of his pieces on ebay...
#1 is large cut glass vase made in Schwäbisch Gmünd Glasfachschule from a
Josephinenhütte blank. It´s ca. 38cm tall.
#2 is an organic shaped amethyst cased clear bowl with an elegantly curved rim
- ca. 23 x 21 cm wide. It was a test piece, which never went into serial production.
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#3 is a lighter made in the same technique as the Wiedmann candleholders - for
comparison see the one in my album here. (https://picasaweb.google.com/108140812446658939096/Gralglas#5631469270596385938)
This piece was made uniquely on request for Mr. Hofmann.
#4 is a test piece combining the Corona technique with frit decoration. I´m not 100% sure
wether it´s a one-off really. At least the technique was used in serial production, but I´m not
sure if it was made in this shape...
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#5 and last is enamel painting on a Gralglas blank. Mr. Hofmann told me on the
phone: ´Well, we were young then...´ ;)
Hope you´ll enjoy! :D
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Dirk, finally a bit of show-and-tell!!! I seriously thought I would grow old and senile before ever seeing what you promised to show. ;D :kissy:
Truly fantastic additions to your collection... and I really can't imagine them going to a more appreciative home. CONGRATULATIONS!
By the way, my absolute favourite is the "When we were young" bowl. Tee hee...
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Sorry it took so long, Anik. But - honestly - since my time in Czech Republic this
is the second (whole) day I´ve spent @home... :P
Came back from Bremen on a Sunday evening and been away on a construction
job since then - spending the last two weekends at my parents´ for helping with
a charity thing... My neighbours in the house have started to call me ´the ghost
from the attic´... :24:
However - many thanks for your kind words! :kissy:
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Thank you from me too,
I love the lighter, and the "young person's" bowl, the first piece is absolutely fascinating - I love the sculptural effect in the middle...
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So do I, Sue. It´s a bit hard to capture in the photographs, but it looks quite
impressing in the flesh. :)
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Lovely items and fantastic variety too. :sun:
John
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Lovely items there Dirk i did spot a piece listed in the monart/vasart scottish glass section on a very well know internet auction site yesterday evening that looked remarkably similar to this type of glass ware i was going to bid but it went too £41 i think and it was a small turned rim bowl but very similar i dont think it was scottish more similar to graal glass did you see it???
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Dirk, wow, phantastic pieces!! Thanks for showing!
I especially like the blue Corona vase and the lighter -- simply gorgeous.
I hope that I am able to find a Gralglas art glass piece too, one day...
Michael
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Dirk they are all fab, thanks for sharing. I particularly love the vase and the enamelled bowl :)
m
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Thank you, all! Sorry for not coming back earlier - still working abroad and having an 8 to 8.30 day
at the moment (no - the second one´s p.m.). ;)
I searched the one on ebay, Bradburry, and I seem to remember we had something similar on this
board already - a greenish vase with bubble inclusions and this matt base finish. Since I can´t
find the thread, here´s something similar on ebay (http://www.ebay.de/itm/WMF-Vase-Luftblasen-Farbe-Lindgrun-/260849576075?pt=Glas_Kristall&hash=item3cbbd8a88b)
Personally I´ve got no idea who made them, but although I can´t exclude it, I´m rather sure they´re
not german. The base finish doesn´t look familiar to any pieces I´ve seen... :)
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Lovely items there Dirk i did spot a piece listed in the monart/vasart scottish glass section on a very well know internet auction site yesterday evening that looked remarkably similar to this type of glass ware i was going to bid but it went too £41 i think and it was a small turned rim bowl but very similar i dont think it was scottish more similar to graal glass did you see it???
Gralglas, one a is a German company, Graal Glass is a decoration technique.
Do you have a link to the auction please.
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Sorry frank been off with lurgy!!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/ebayisapi.dll?viewitem&item=130575243439
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Certainly not Scottish but nicely made piece, I wonder if bidders know what it is. Would that qualify as schaumglas? I would have thought not but not seen much variation in that style.