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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: rocco on July 19, 2013, 12:23:53 PM
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Small vessel in brown cloud glass, height 7 cm, diameter 7.3 cm. Inside with satin finish. Ground base ring with moulded star in the centre of the base.
It has 6 medaillons to the sides, 3 of them decorated with Easter-related animals (rabbit, cockerel and lamb).
The brown colour (Sepia?) and the ground base all look very much like August Walther ORALIT glass from the 1930s.
But a quite extensive search through Pamela's sites, the cloud-glass.com site, and through many issues of Pressglas-Korrespondenz didn't come up with anything; but I may have missed it due to the sheer amount of information...
The other problem is that I don't know how to call it properly when searching.
So which purpose would it serve? -- A vase? A bowl? A sugar? A salt? (It is much too big for an egg cup). And it doesn't look like it was missing a lid (but maybe it does?)
Would the paschal decor give a hint?
Thanks for any help! :)
Michael
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Another pretty cloud glass, Michael! I would imagine an egg shaped box missing its lid, unfortunately! Indeed Walther'ish but have got no evidence from the catalogues, I'm afraid. Being a season's item, perhaps it never made it there ;D
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Thank you Pamela! :)
Nice that I got the attribution probably right -- Walther seems to be the number one candidate for Sepia cloud glass pieces.
Egg shaped box missing its lid is quite probable (considering the Easter theme).
I guess season's pieces like this were not always catalogued? Or may it be an older piece from a catalogue not available to us, which was re-issued in ORALIT in the 1930s?
I looked through all pre WWII catalogues on your site, but nothing similar there.
Michael