Topic: Scandinavian? Italian? English? ID = Elis Bergh for Kosta

[zidori]

I have just bought two job lots opf assorted glass and had a great time identifying as many as I could - Murano, Whitefriars, Selkirk, Caithness to name but a few. However one or two pieces have stumped me and I would be grateful for any help with their ID.
The first is a very heavy triangular based bowl that so easily could be Scandinavian or Italian or what? It has a polished sunken pontil and on the flat base at the edge of the pontil is engraved B1900. Can anyone shed any light on the probable maker of this piece?

Ronnie

[Pinkspoons]

Looks like the Kosta coding for Elis Bergh designs. See: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,27956.0.html

[zidori]

Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm chuffed that Scandinavian was my first thought and this information will now be filed away in my ever-increasing, but still rather sparse, knowledge bank.
Ronnie

[taylog1]

following on from this and the linked post I checked in the swedish glass factories book. In Kosta 1959 (p 397 my copy) there are a number of bits by Ellis Berg - "the letters BH refer to designs by Ellis Bergh, in various techniques, which were either still being produced in the later 1950s or had been reintroduced. The item numbers facilitate dating of the designs." There's then a table with dates of designs.

This piece is in there with the number BH 1900 - which dates it as 1940 for the design. The fact that yours is B1900 and not BH 1900 points to one of the earlier made bits (in one of the earlier pages in the book are some designs labelled B xxx, which appear to be by Bergh also).

Gareth

[zidori]

Thank you, Gareth, for the reply to my posting. I have been away for the week, hence the lack of acknowledgement.
Regards
Ronnie