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Glass Identification - Post here for all ID requests => Glass => Topic started by: Leni on February 25, 2005, 11:42:27 AM

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Leni on February 25, 2005, 11:42:27 AM

I keep asking questions that no-one answers  :cry:   I hope someone can help me with this!  Yet again, it's something which arose from our visit to the Cambridge Glass Fair!    ::)

While looking around the fair we spotted a bowl identical to one I have at home.  I bought it for my mother many years ago (probably in the late '70's early '80's) and got it back when she died. 

I didn't register who made it when I bought it, so I was interested to see at the fair that the bowl was marked 'Riihimaki' and had a label on the side saying 'Lasi'. 

Jotting down the names in my notebook, I looked them up on the internet when I got back.  I know nothing about this sort of glass, but everything I saw looked nothing like my bowl!    :o

So does anybody recognise it?  Can you tell me who would have made it?  http://tinypic.com/1tuh5t

I do hope someone can help me this time  :(

Leni

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Anonymous on February 25, 2005, 12:21:59 PM

This may help

http://www.riihimaki.fi/index.asp?id=29FF2512A77C45C7876CCD8971B6D929&layout=esikatselu

click on Matkailijan Riihimäki and then on guide to service

but you will need to wait till Ivo is on line for anything more substantive!
Adam A.

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Ivo on February 25, 2005, 01:36:42 PM

hum - flattered I'm sure.

It is basic Finnish - everybody should have a smattering....
Riihimäki is the town
Riihimäen = of Riihimäki
Lasi = glass
Riihimäen Lasi = Glass from Riihimäki

 ::)

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Glen on February 25, 2005, 02:29:17 PM

Tervetuloa, Glen here.

For a little more about Riihimaki and its lasi, you may like to look at the article I posted last week on my website. It's linked off the mainpage
http://www.carnival-glass.net

The article is called "Remarkable Riihimaki".

Kiitos, kiitos   ;D

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Max on February 25, 2005, 02:48:25 PM

If I'd seen your bowl Leni, never in a million years would I suspect it's Riihimaki.  I've never seen one like it before.  It doesn't appear in my books, and I certainly have no examples on the shelf.

Mind you, I didn't know Riihimaki did carnival glass in the 20's either...

You know...I could really do with a book about Riihimaki.  Who's going to write one for me?   :D


Max xx

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Leni on February 25, 2005, 03:21:49 PM

Quote from: Leni

I looked them up on the internet when I got back.  I know nothing about this sort of glass, but everthing I saw looked nothing like my bowl!   :o Leni

Thanks Adam, Ivo & Glen - and Max!  In fact, it's Max who has made the point for me. 

I had discovered a certain amount of info on Riihimaki Lasi.  I knew it was Finnish - even knew it was glass   ;D

BUT .... as Max says, it's nothing like any of the Riihimaki I found in my searches!  I even Googled the most famous Riihimaki 'names' and ploughed through pages in Finnish looking for pictures of their work, but couldn't find anything like my bowl   :-\

If I hadn't seen it at the Glass Fair and seen the label - which was obviously genuine - I would never had thought Riihimaki either!

Although as Max says, I too had no idea they had ever made Carnival  :o

So .... still no clues as to who made my bowl!    ::)

Leni

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Sklounion on February 25, 2005, 06:27:08 PM

Given the almost landscape feel to the image you give, I have one image of something along those lines, by Heikko Kallio, in Finnish Post-war Glass 1945-96, Jack Dawson. Not saying it is or isn't, but its a fine catalogue, and the Kallio bowl is the only piece that feels similar.
Marcus

Title: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Leni on February 25, 2005, 10:47:40 PM

Quote from: Le Casson

Given the almost landscape feel to the image you give

Personally, I'd have said seascape, but ....   ;)

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I have one image of something along those lines, by Heikko Kallio, in Finnish Post-war Glass 1945-96, Jack Dawson. Not saying it is or isn't, but its a fine catalogue, and the Kallio bowl is the only piece that feels similar.
Marcus

Thanks very much for that Marcus.  Another line of investigation to follow   ;D

Leni

Title: Re: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Anne on February 11, 2008, 01:56:15 AM

Hi Leni, another piccie gone awol... any chance of replacing it please?

Title: Re: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Leni on February 11, 2008, 09:09:50 AM

This one's in my gallery, too.  Here it is   :D

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10048/Lasi_bowl.jpg

Title: Re: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Della on February 11, 2008, 10:17:33 AM

Hi Leni,
Definitely Riihimaen Lasi. It is called "Koralli" (coral) and was designed in 1976, by Tamara Aladin. If I am not mistaken the production number is 1285. I believe it was also one of the last designs to come out of that factory.

Della
xx

Title: Re: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Leni on February 11, 2008, 11:59:40 AM

Thank you, Della!   :clap:  ;D

Title: Re: Lasi Riihimaki bowl
Post by: Anne on February 15, 2008, 04:16:26 PM

Yay! another successful bump! Thanks Leni for updating the pic link and Della for solving the mystery. :)