Topic: ID needed, am thinking Skrdlovice but cant read signature???

[steph]

 I have a vase with an engraved name that I am unable to decipher, can someone help please?  There is a very similar type of vase in the HSLS book pg 64 attributed to Frantisek Vizner ' in 1968.  'Later examples were less detailed and often executed in brash colours' - so is mine a 'brash later one' or am I in the wrong glassworks entirely?  cheers steph.

[Anne]

Can you get a sharper closeup of the signature please Steph? Your camera's focusing behind the piece rather than on it... perhaps a macro setting (little flower) and zoom into it, or even a super-macro setting if you have one...

[steph]

Your joking....G's still in Hungry and I can just about aim and snap!!!  I'ts taken me weeks to learn how to downsize to get stuff on here as it is....but I'll read the book and see what's to do.. :thup:..by the way Wabbits a cute name. :chky: cheers steph.
 

[Cathy B]

Steph, the macro is usually indicated by a little flower somewhere. Usually with point-and-clicks it's just a button.

[langhaugh]

Steph:

It might be easier to look on the Beranek site to see the new, garish models. None seemed to quite match yours but you can make up your own mind. It's at http://www.beranekglass.com/

Click on Products, then Vases, then keep clicking until one like your appears. There are two pages of variations of the original Vizner piece.

Good luck.

David

[Jindra8526]

This piece is modified Vizner's one, colour focus us to Beranek period. I would guess that cut had been performed bz Mr. Novak and you will possibli discover his signature there. I have met Mr. Novak in Skrdlovice this February and he showed me same vase.

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo

[steph]

Thanks for help folks..... honestly I was using the 'little weed' but have now learnt about another method on my camera...unfortunately still not coming up with a better shot yet...have even tried Anne's cornflour trick? 

Anyway thanks to David and Jindrich I've got plenty of leads to work on.  Jindrich my tummy did a somersault with excitement when I saw what you'd written.  Thank you so much. & David that site is wonderful... One of the vases illustrated does have a central core of the same lurid yellow so I'm feeling things are getting warmer.

thanks so much, steph. :hug:

[Anne]

Steph, your vase looks very like the one in Dusan's album, attributed there to Jaroslav Svoboda... see what you think here...
http://picasaweb.google.de/exat53/JaroslavSvoboda#5159818410684560306

[Jindra8526]

No, this is standard 1968 Vizner's "whirpool vase" blowed in tubular shape (6824) than hot formed by three "bangs" and finaly cutted.
Many standard Skrdlovice shapes had been latery refined by cutting, sold as individual pieces, not in series.

I do not know where Svoboda's attribution at Dusan site came from - see Svoboda web www.ags-svoboda.cz, his piece looks much more like to be fabricated in Princ glassworks - www.princglass.com.

Anyway - both Svoboda and Princ are names for factory in this case, not for author - designer.

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo