Topic: Wondering when WMF REALLY stopped making Ikora?

[scoutshouse]

Hi there!
I came across a set of 6 wine glasses, one of which still bears a WMF sticker.
I'm a little confused about when WMF actually made glass tableware.
The colors and style do not seem as old as the bulk of Ikora examples on Google and elsewhere.
There is a opaque yellow ring under the (clear) body of the glass, a white opaque stem and an opaque orange base.
The colored portions have the texture of Ikora.
I would say that they appear to be in a simplified Memphis Style, which would date them at around the 80's.
The sticker is clear, not paper.
What do you think?
Thanks for your help.
This is one of the best sites for glass I've found, so Thanks!.

[Pinkspoons]

'Ikora' glass proper ceased production in 1954, but I believe they produced other glass for quite a while longer.

After they stopped manufacturing their own glass they outsourced production to other factories - I think the bulk of it was produced in Poland.

[Ivo]

WMF stopped making glass in 1984, after 100 years.  After that they outsourced all glassware to Zwiesel - and I think they still do. Even if Zwiesel is producing in Turkey and Poland, they also produce in Germany. We're talking about table ware, NOT Ikora which is a special range of art glass from the 1930s. After Wiedmann, the man responsible for Ikora, came back from imprisonment in France some time in 1948, 1949 - they tried to revive the art glass operation at WMF but it was short lived. He left for Glasgralhütte, and the old firm stopped art glass altogether.

[scoutshouse]

This all makes total sense, thanks.

They don't look like "Art Glass" - and could definitely be taken for Polish glass mimicking more distinctive contemporary glass.

I've walked by them many times, and just yesterday decided to check out the sticker. The WMF confused me, bc they aren't that beautiful, and
I knew Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik to be outstanding and much older than these look.

So, thanks!

Cool.

[Frank]

WMF produced a wide variety in different materials, have stacks of their catalogues except Ikora