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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: dirk. on August 05, 2014, 08:17:41 PM
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Hi there,
if it´s true that three make a collection I´ve recently managed to make my Svarc flower cut vases
become one.
The thistle must be the best known one, but here two further ones - roses and clover. All three
are signed.
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Enjoy!
Dirk
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Roses
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Clover
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They are beautiful Dirk
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Gorgeous!
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Thank you. :D
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Oooh Dirk, they are gorgeous!
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I'll join the chorus of admiration (and envy). Gorgeous! I never even knew about the rose and clover patterns.
David
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I didn´t know about those patterns either - until I found them... ;D
The rose pattern obviously also came on other items:
daweb (http://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fs3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com%2Fimages.antiques-atlas.co.uk%2Fdealer-stock-images%2Faworldofglass%2FSvarc_Crystal_Charger_as319a004z-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.antiques-atlas.com%2Fantique%2Fsvarc_crystal_charger%2Fas319a004&h=750&w=1000&tbnid=gISx20VJppjTjM%3A&zoom=1&docid=LyyQ-Er0vKRIhM&ei=XZfjU561HoSsOoiogPgB&tbm=isch&client=firefox-a&iact=rc&uact=3&dur=507&page=3&start=65&ndsp=35&ved=0CO0BEK0DMEI)
But I haven´t managed to find another clover yet. The auction thankfully only had a very
blurred picture and didn´t mention it was signed. Well, perhaps they just didn´t realise
it was a signature. ;)
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They are lovely, I've had a bit of a thing about the thistle design for a long time. One of the few pieces of cut glass I lust after, it is!
I was recently researching (googling :-[ ) Podebrady and this thistle design came up a lot - did Svarc work for Podebrady?
Also, and this is my big question ::). Does anybody have any idea who made the pressed glass in a very similar design? The glass itself is very yellow, but I do have a large tray I use all the time in the kitchen that has this (or a very, very, very similar) thistle pattern on it. It must have been a "tribute" to the original cut Svarc design.
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I wouldn´t mind if you hijacked this thread with your tray, Sue. :-* (you may have read this before - we
need a photo) 8)
The thistle is my favourite also and I´m really proud to have the plate and the bowl also; the first one
being one of my best ebay-BIN-bargains ever.
Still missing the round versions or the goblets though... ;)
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::) I suspected as much. I will have to dig it out from under all the stuff that sits on it, clean it up etc.
I shall drag my weary bones off to the kitchen... It would be so much easier if they were not so heavy!
:)
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Ha! That´s close indeed. I think you´re right and they must have known the original design.
But perhaps like with other czech designs this one was sold or made under license? ???
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The flowers are completely different, it's not a copy, but the design itself is inspired by the Svarc original, it couldn't possibly be anything other than a tribute to it, could it?
That was why I bought it, because it was so like this famous and beautiful design.
It sits beside my kitchen sink, and I use it as a spill tray to hold my detergents and soap dishes and scrubby things. But the colour of the glass is not good. It is very yellow, which doesn't show up against the black background I used to show up the design.
Another huge difference is that my tray has a textured background, you can only make out a little of that in my pics, but it is there.
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Maybe they needed a slight modification for transferring it to another medium, but - I think more
likely you´re right and they just used the Svarc for inspiration. Nice to have it here for comparison
anyway. :)
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Glass, including plates, decorated only with thistles, appear in Czech glass designed at this time, by Stahlikova and others but Svarc with his amazing cutting took the theme into new territory in my opinion. I have never seen the pressed dish before and agree it must be the Svarc thistles that largely inspired this design. I have a photo of a Svarc goblet, with two other Podebrady designs... The Svarc chargers are interesting as there seem to be numerous variations, almost all equally good too. I imagine he got a bit bored with exactly the same number of thistles etc. and developed and adjusted the design regularly, I like the look of the weight of that bowl design too Dirk, it looks monumental,
Robert (bOBA)
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Many thanks for your comment and picture, which I obviously missed to reply to. There even was
a jug with thistle cut on ebay lately; so it seems this motif was by far the most popular one I´d say.
Which leads to this latest find of mine, which would possibly have been the least item to spend some
serious money on if I had had to. It did however come as a flea-market find along with the benefits of a
therefore reasonable price.
Let it speak for itself. ;)
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I'd happily give that a home...
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Thanks, Sue.
Yes, it´s - special. ;D
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I was about to write the same as Sue:
Very nice for a basket ;D
BTW, I found this interesting info in CGR 1968/7: >> Link (https://picasaweb.google.com/104509467784289017506/Glasrevue1968702?authkey=Gv1sRgCLmEqb-m_fH2rQE&noredirect=1#5513729653044387634)
(if the direct link doesn't work: page 328)
So is the thistle design by Josef Svarc AND Jirina Zertova?
Michael
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Interesting indeed, never heard that mentioned before... ???
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Finally found me one of these lovely vases, too -- roses :D
Different shape than the ones Dirk posted, stands a little over 28 cm tall.
Signed "Svarc" to the base.
Sorry for the quality of the photo, cannot compete with Dirk's great pics...
Michael
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Beautiful! I'm sure it sparkles magnificently when the light is just right.
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Thanks Anik :)
Yes, it does look very good on the windowsill.
And it is huge...
Michael