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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: bOBA on May 17, 2013, 04:16:55 PM

Title: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: bOBA on May 17, 2013, 04:16:55 PM

Hi,
does anyone recognise this simple vase? It could still be being sold. It has a heat finished rim, not cut and a flat polished base. The smoke colour is making people think German or possibly Scandinavian..... It is about 15cm tall. I am really keen to know what it is but I fear that the shape is slightly generic.......


Robert

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: dirk. on May 17, 2013, 07:25:04 PM

...or dutch perhaps...  ;D  :-X  8)

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: bOBA on May 17, 2013, 08:25:29 PM

Thanks Dirk... though one Dutch GMB member has suggested not Dutch... I actually checked my Caithness book too... the smoke looked a bit peaty... I think a few more nations may yet be dragged into this thread....

Robert

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: robbo on May 18, 2013, 04:30:55 PM

I've seen these vases a couple of times here in the UK and also a jug, made using the same mould but with the top finished at an angle and with a handle. The jug had a label which, if I remember correctly, said "Bronzglass Made in Poland". The jug had quite a well finished mirror polished base. Presumably "Bronzglass" was an importer or retailer here in the UK rather than a manufacturer.

I've always wondered if they may be related to these vases:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271205700731

and few other related shapes which as far as I know remain unidentified.

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: dirk. on May 18, 2013, 04:40:01 PM

There´s umpteen of these designs in german glass  - from 30´s to 60´s. The one in the link
should be Alfred Taube around 1950-60 IMHO.
This slightly green-ish smoke glass tone has been used by every glassworks at that time:
WMF, Hirschberg, (Füger &) Taube, Friedrich...

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: robbo on May 18, 2013, 05:14:48 PM

Thanks Dirk,

The one in the eBay link is interesting because for some reason it crops up here quite frequently whereas a lot of German post-war glass does not.
Post-war WMF, Peill & Putzler, Süssmuth are generally really thin on the ground here. Presumably it depends who was importing what at the time.

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: bOBA on May 18, 2013, 05:58:22 PM

Thanks Robbo and Dirk. It is certainly worth discussing these pieces given their frequency and quite good manufacturing quality. Better identification will help a lot of people. It is a nice small vase of reasonable quality ..... The Poland option is interesting and German options too. Many decent glassworks have evidently chased a similar customer base over the past few decades.... interesting. 

Robert

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: rocco on May 18, 2013, 07:13:14 PM

Austria is another option ;D
Companies like Stölzle Oberglas and Schneegattern made lots of glass in similar style >> example (http://www.willhaben.at/iad/viewimage?adId=58606744)

Michael

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: Sendhandfran on May 20, 2014, 05:33:43 PM

Hi Rocco,
I wonder if this is it?
Though if it is, I'm afraid I've not been able to find out anything about "bronzglass'

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: Sendhandfran on May 20, 2014, 05:35:32 PM

Oops just seen its been IDed.
Great, so its Polish eh.
Thanks :)

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: robbo on May 21, 2014, 05:37:51 PM

Thanks for posting your photo of the labelled example  :)
After I'd seen the jug I mentioned in the earlier post I was unable to find anything about "Bronzglass" either.
What's the other text on the label?

robbo

Title: Re: modern smoke coloured vase
Post by: Sendhandfran on May 21, 2014, 09:42:55 PM

'Foreign' not a lot of help really, lol