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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: rocco on June 08, 2014, 04:53:00 PM
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Huge smokey grey lampbase, height 40 cm, diameter appr. 26 cm.
Decorated with 8 "tadpoles" in the lower third.
The base has the "Kunsthandwerk" label with the two horse heads which was discussed >> here (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,56369.0.html) recently, so there has to be a connection to the German ceramist Richard Uhlemeyer.
Link to an auction of a vintage glass catalogue from Uhlemeyer >> here (http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/richard-uhlemeyer-german-glass-21102762).
As I would think that Uhlemeyer didn't make glass himself, this has got to be made somewhere -- but where?
And I wonder if he designed the glass bearing his label, or if he sold glass from other makers under his brand name?
If so -- is it possible to identify this piece? (I am not sure if it was a lamp base originally, may have been a vase converted, as the fitting seems to be glued on to the glass).
Thanks for any thoughts!
Michael
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I just came across several vases designed by Vittorio Zecchin in the 1920s/30s, same shape, same teardrop decor.
>> Here (http://www.1000-objekte.ch/collections/italian-glass/products/vittorio-zecchin-for-venini) is one with some info: "...Zecchin worked alongside Venini and CAM even for AVEM and produced at this time in various companies these types of vases..."
More >> here (http://www.icollector.com/VENINI-C-Murano-Vittorio-Zecchin-Vase-hellgr-nes-Glas-Hohe-ovoide-Form-mit-eingezo_i1366146) and >> here (http://tillipan.com/a_goccia/vittorio_zecchin-2/).
So could be a German "copy" of a Zecchin vase, or even Italian and imported and sold under the Uhlemeyer "Kunsthandwerk" brand name...
Mysterious 8)
The colour seems a little off for a 1930s Murano Soffiato piece, though...
Michael