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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: pamela on October 05, 2016, 08:24:56 PM
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Asking for a friend as I'm lost when it comes to blown, decorated glass...
This beautiful, large for its kind (approx. Ø 26 cms) bowl was found in Germany.
Any information regarding likely provenance or even maker is gratefully appreciated.
Thank you for taking the time to look! :-*
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Yes, uranium glass ;D 8)
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Pamela, I don't know about the decorator but
on page 77 of Truitt's Collectible Bohemian Glass 1880-1940 there is a series of vases and epergne type pieces that appear to be the purple frilled and ruffled rim with a cream interior.
The picture is in a catalogue from Hosch dated around 1905 and the pics are very small to be able to see any detail.
Nonetheless these pieces look the same as the bowl.
But none are just a bowl though - they are few vases and then a tall three layer epergne with what appears to be the same bowls.
However although the glass looks the same, the decoration is much more flowery.
That said, Truitt's say:
'Hosch utilised the talents of numerous local refiners and the catalog photos on the following pages indicate just how diverse the company was'. So it's probable it was just a different decorator.
It does say in the book that those vase and bowls in those catalogue pages (including the versions like your bowl) were procured from Wilhelm Kralik & Sons, Eleonora.
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M, thank you so very much - I had hoped you would see this and leave your highly esteemed comment!
Very happy friend here! :-* :-*
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:-* embarrassed as not highly esteemed, but just have some time and some books to look through!
The pontil mark on the bowl is also neatly done, ground but not polished.
That, I think, would fit with the quality of Kralik as well. Whereas many times on these type of pieces I have seen cracked off pontil marks, not ground and not polished.
Looking at the photos in daylight with a magnifying glass, the bowls also do appear to have the gradiated paler colour between the dark ruffled and undulating rims and the cream bowls as can be seen in your example.
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M, I beg to apologize my poor knowledge of the English language. Esteemed was meant in the sense of high value - not an "estimated" comment. :-[
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Pamela your English is perfect :-[ - I was just embarrassed by your lovely words :)
I wish I had some knowledge of German - then I would be able to read all my German glass books and understand them.
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