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Glass Discussion & Research. NO IDENTIFICATION REQUESTS here please. => Bohemia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Austria => Topic started by: chopin-liszt on August 19, 2015, 05:42:23 PM
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I found this a wee while ago, and thought it was lovely, but I'm clueless about what it is. I suspect Czech.
The base is polished completely flat and is a very neat looking, round-cornered, square shape. I suspect it is arrised too, but only very slightly.
There are four upright "dents" around the base going up into the body, the shape is very simple, but because of the positioning of the dents and the thickness of the glass and the use of the colours, it all works together to make it appear far more complex than it is - and a nightmare to photograph!
The colours are a greyish lilac encasing a pale grass green.
Any help appreciated. ;D
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Could well be from ZBS - Zelezny Brod Sklo.
John
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That's what my guts said. ZBS. But they're about as clueless as I am. ;D
Something about it just shrieks good quality. (but in a very tasteful manner ;))
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Oooooo I've seen this vase before, but can't remember where. :-\ It's lovely, but the colors don't strike me as being very ZBS-y.
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;D
I'm still not even completely sure about the colours - the top appears not to be the grey-lilac, but clear.
How the whole thing ends up looking a smoky grey is really odd.
Perhaps I should try taking some more pictures, see if different positions around the house or light angles help! I just "caught" it, sitting on top of the pc box, with a bit of paper behind. the colours show a bit better from this angle underneath, but the lilac looks too blue, it's more amethyst
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Definately Skrdlovice! :)
I have a Zertova ashtray in this distinctive colourway, I love how the two coloured layers mix to a neutral grey...
Michael
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Wonderful, Michael thank-you!
It's not in Jindrich's and BOBa's book, but it does match your colours - and yes, it's really weird how the colours work themselves into this neutral, smoky grey.
Again, the joy of what glass can do. ;D
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I am pretty sure it is a not often (seen) Spinar design 6309. I have one in a very strange colourway too, they were experimenting quite a lot with colours at this time!
Robert (bOBA)
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This is getting quite exciting. ;D
I do like it when I find something I do not recognise, but suspect there is real quality to it, and then to discover there really IS the quality I had suspected.
Having the designer name is just the icing on the cake. 8) 8) 8)
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There was another one on the board a while ago, very unusual colourway >> http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,54924.0.html (http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,54924.0.html)
And there is one on ebay.de for ages, classic Skrdlovice colours >> http://www.ebay.de/itm/191233125861 (http://www.ebay.de/itm/191233125861)
Michael
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Seems plenty of folk get a feeling of ZBS for this, I'm at least not alone.
I'm geting more and more fond of it - it looks at its best from slightly underneath, rather than at eye level.
Thanks for the info. and the links. :)
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Ha! I knew I knew the vase... my brain just forgot the details. :P
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:-*
I know that feeling only too well!
The vase is still sitting on top of my pc box, in front of me, just above eye level, with the paper behind it.
I can admire and see it properly from this position. :)
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Hi all,
without wanting to appear fickle, revisiting this vase made me remember that there are two patterns that are very similar which were designed by master glassmakers for Skrdlovice in 1963. The other is 6346 by Jan Juda. Both Juda and Spinar were senior glass masters for several decades (and provided designs at times too). I add my photo of the same pattern vase, in yet another unsual colourway for Skrdlovice, a strong cranberry red cased in a smoky steely blue. Because of the mid height depth of the vase in the Juda pattern drawing, compared to the full depth vase drawn for the Spinar 1963 pattern, I view all these as Juda vases. A search on Jindra's Czech glass site will reveal a meeting he had with Juda before Jan Juda died and he was friendly and active to the last. Jindra visited in the company of designer Frantisek Vizner, who got on well with most of the men he had known who spent all their working lives at the furnace and the article shows the down to earth style of these talented men,
Robert (bOBA)