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Title: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: NevB on April 10, 2022, 12:47:41 PM

I found these at this morning's boot sale. I can't find anything similar so I've listed them just as Bohemian because it can be a minefield trying to attribute these pieces. They are clear over yellow/white cased glass and virtually all the gilding has rubbed off leaving the typical Bohemian yellow/orange base to the decoration. The uranium feet have been applied in one piece and hot worked, sadly they are all damaged.

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: chasdevlin on April 10, 2022, 02:10:05 PM

They look very much like Franz Welz to me as they did a lot of variegated yellow pieces with gilding.
Have you looked at the Welz section on Kralik-glass.com?

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: NevB on April 10, 2022, 04:06:59 PM

Thanks chasdevlin, my first thoughts were Welz too and I think they probably are by them. There are a lot of yellow spatter glass pieces online which are attributed to Welz, however there doesn't seem to be anything on the Kralik-glass site or elsewhere to confirm this. I would guess that Welz didn't do the gilding but would pass/sell the pieces on to others to add the decoration. Perhaps Craig will comment.

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: glassobsessed on April 11, 2022, 11:02:55 AM

I am under the impression that Loetz and Harrach also produced yellow and white wares, I would bet that if it was popular at the time that other glass makers did too.

John

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: NevB on April 11, 2022, 01:25:28 PM

Thanks John, here's another photo to better show the colour/pattern. I've seen similar attributed to Moser/Welz? and was sceptical about the Moser attribution but this linked site has a Moser vase with very similar colour and decoration, said to be marketed by Moser. There is also another one in the misc. unidentified section.

https://sites.google.com/a/bohemianglassandmore.com/bohemian-glass-and-more/Home

Having seen theirs I checked the whole of mine under UV and it glows a bright pink and orange showing it is Cadmium glass. It would be rather nice if they are Moser.

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: glassobsessed on April 11, 2022, 03:50:51 PM

Some Loetz examples are shown here, it is a long long article, scroll down to the 65s: https://www.loetz.com/identifying-loetz-glass/early-loetz

A few more examples, the first one I thought had a Welz feel along the lines of the trophy vases.

Title: Re: Bohemian Vase.
Post by: NevB on April 11, 2022, 04:23:44 PM

Thanks again John, it definitely is a minefield trying to pin down a maker.  :)