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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Ivo on April 05, 2016, 08:03:00 AM

Title: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: Ivo on April 05, 2016, 08:03:00 AM

Heavy item, 12 cm high (5") made in smoky glass and with a vacant look. The rim is cut off and properly polished; there is no pontil mark.

Where do I start looking?

Title: Re: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 05, 2016, 11:28:08 AM

It's got a nose like a koala's, (from the front image, not the profile. From the profile it looks like a characature of a person) ;D
Kosta did some slightly "crude" looking faces on tableware things.
I'm not sure crude is the word I'm looking for but I can't think of the one I do need. :-[
But maybe something somebody made for a friend?
The body appears to be very well made, the features may be supposed to represent an individual.

Title: Re: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: Anne on April 05, 2016, 07:35:22 PM

Primitive, Sue?

It's a scary looking thing!

Title: Re: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: Ivo on April 05, 2016, 09:55:33 PM

I agree it looks a little like the scarecrow in the wizzard of oz.

Title: Re: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: chopin-liszt on April 06, 2016, 01:19:47 PM

Primitive? Good word Anne, thanks! :-*
This isn't a crude thing, Ivo, it's primitive. There is considerable skill involved, any ugliness is deliberate, as it is in the Kosta range.

Title: Re: Face it, it's a tankart
Post by: ju1i3 on April 08, 2016, 06:17:34 AM

reminds me of those pottery SylvaC face pots