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Title: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: glass85 on August 03, 2015, 10:34:56 AM

ID? is it WMF? Who is the designer?  :)

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: Ivo on August 03, 2015, 01:04:40 PM

With a course bottom like that probably not wmf.

the word smaragd is Dutch for emerald.

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: glass85 on August 03, 2015, 01:52:33 PM

Yes, i thought so too. I've bought the vase in Germany (Oldenburg) that's why i think it's German. It's a nice quality vase, any other ideas?

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: chopin-liszt on August 03, 2015, 01:54:44 PM

I don't think the base is coarse, Ivo. I think it's been polished flat and is quite scratched with age. There are a whole load of reflections on the surface which make it appear coarse, at first. You need to really peer at the enlarged pic.

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: glass85 on August 03, 2015, 02:19:02 PM

I've made a better pic of the bottom. It's flat polished, but quite scratched with age.

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: Drinkwater on August 04, 2015, 06:20:37 PM

This vase is WMF. Designed by Erich Jachmann, 50s to 60s.

Click here for eBay item (http://www.ebay.de/itm/Design-50er-WMF-Glasvase-Erich-Jachmann/121701859436?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D29977%26meid%3Dc9d921c160f94b33918b737a4caba4de%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D251400655036)

[Mod: enormous eBay url converted to clickable text.]

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: rocco on August 06, 2015, 08:12:07 AM

Thank you for the link!

But there are so many ebay "myths" which are repeated over and over (and have proved to be wrong here on the board) -- do you know of any reference that the vase was designed by Erich Jachmann for WMF?

Michael

Title: Re: Smaragd green optical vase WMF?
Post by: Drinkwater on August 08, 2015, 07:49:00 PM

Hi Rocco,

yes, I though I did see this vase in a more 'serious' context with another ID. I just searched a little bit but couldn't find it.
I though by my own it is not such a well known designer like Jachmann, more like she or he Kupetz. I am still searching...