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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: yulia on April 26, 2013, 12:36:43 AM

Title: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: yulia on April 26, 2013, 12:36:43 AM

dear experts!
I have at home one old vase, and I used to think that it is bohemian. But I watched  YouTube video clip about Ajka crystal and at 54th second it showed the vase which is very similar to mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFyOmw12oQ

in this connection I have questions - who made ​​my vase?
how to differentiate Ajka and Bohemia?

and one more very important question -

I'm trying to find catalogs with Ajka crystal, their old produce and I can not find anywhere. why there is no catalogs? why is so little information?

in all my albums on European glass I can not find  Ajka.
and this is an old and honored glass factory ..

may be somebody can help me? :)

this is photos of my vase, almost the same as Ajka's.

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: brain_11 on April 27, 2013, 09:15:42 AM

It is a bohemian glass, not Ajka. Ajka didn't use gold (as far as I know). There is one book on Ajka crystal in Hungarian. We (group of glass enthusiasts)  will visit Aka Crystal at the end of August when we visit glass galleries, museums etc in Vienna and Hungary. If interested in details PM me.
Attila

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: yulia on April 27, 2013, 03:20:20 PM

thank you for reply!)
probably you'll make nice photos?)

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: flying free on April 27, 2013, 08:43:32 PM

It's very difficult I think to tell with these pieces from photographs but looking through my books there is one becher on page 107 of Truitt's Bohemian Glass 1880-1940, which is white overlay with gilt and flowers. 
The rose on it and the leaves look very similar to those on your vase.  Of course that rose might have been done I guess by others, but this one was painted by Brigitte Pfohl  and dated 1970.
Brigitte 'Pfohl is  Alexander Pfohl's daughter.
Sorry there is no more information than that, so it's not certain who made the piece.
It is possible your vase was made at one factory and decorated elsewhere.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.
m

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: yulia on April 27, 2013, 08:47:50 PM

thank you!
any info welcome! :)

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: Ivo on April 27, 2013, 08:52:36 PM

This type of glass has been widely copied in recent years - and chances are it is recent to very recent.

Title: Re: AJKA OR BOHEMIA?
Post by: yulia on April 27, 2013, 09:03:40 PM

it looks so old for me)

who makes the same?