Topic: Pink cased clear freeform vase with acid mark - Hospodka?

[dirk.]

Hi,
I was thinking Hospodka perhaps for this piece? It´s a lovely vase
in a vivid pink with a thick layer of clear glass.
There´s an acid mark to the base. Did Chribska often mark their
pieces? I can´t really make out, what it says or what exactly it is -
except that it´s a circular mark with anything inside the circle.
TIA
Dirk

[Jindra8526]

It is Chřibská piece 154/3/20. The acid mark is not factory mark but a fabrication notice (Markus Newhall explained me the reason but I have forgotten the exact meaning, I only remember that it has to do something with fabrication row).

With such Chřibská pieces it is difficult, they are mostly attributed to Hospodka. Hospodka had invented this "style" and glassmasters have followed. him. 

It was like infection or epidemy, take a look to attached picture. These pieces had not been fabricated in Chřibská but in Škrdlovice and designed by Jan Beránek :-) as a result of his education period in Nový Bor (for Skrdlovice funs - these pieces are rather extra-ordinary and hed not been produced in mass)

Jindrich

[Sklounion]

Re:Chřibská

There are several other designers associated with this factory:
František Koudelka, Josef Starosta, Ludvika Smrčková and Ladislav Oliva.
Josef Starosta was responsible for ranges such as "Bratislava 79", "Dana", "Eva", "Hana", "Jana", "Květa" "Marie", "Moscow 80", "Opava" and "Věra".
It would be wrong to assume that Hospodka was the only major designer for the works, or that he was responsible for the bulk of designs between 1951 and his death in 1989.

M

Koudelka: patterns 400, 402,
Starosta : "Eva"  pattern number 390, "Věra" 383, "Jana" 391, "Ilona" 387, "Zuzana" 392, "Marie" 384, "Opava" 382, "Květa" 389, "Bratislava 79" 380, "Dana" 388, "Hana" 385, "Moscow 80" 381.

[dirk.]

Thanks Jindrich and Marcus!
There´s still an awful lot to discover about Czech glass I see. Perhaps
we´ll be able to attribute this vase one day. 
Until then I´ll simply stop trying to make out, what´s in the inside of this
mark, before I get boss-eyed.

[Jindra8526]

Well Marcus,
the type of glass we can see at picture is really pure Hospodka's style.

It does not mean, of course, that all what had been fabricated in Chribska was designed by Hospodka. If you will take a look at mentioned patterns designed by Koudelka, Starosta, Svestkova, Wünch you will discover that designes differ from the ones we can see here so often.

See following designs also fabricated in Chribska.

Jindrich