Topic: Structured square vase with stylized flower - ID = Cesky kristal Chlum u Trebone

[astrid]

It measures 27.8 cm high, 10 cm bij 10 cm. I've seen another one in Dusan's Picasa collection, but no ID attached, so I'm hoping anyone here might have a clue. It has two faint lines at opposite corners, probably from a mold, but it has a polished pontil mark as well.

My first hunch is German, because I've seen square bottle type vases from Wiesenthal, Klaus Breit that have a partly similar feel but this one is not close enough in shape or style to assume anything. Another possibility I think is Scandivian (probably because the flower is abstract and it because it's simple and elegant). And last, I guess there is a faint possibility that it's Czech, since it has some similarities to Chlum u Trebone that I've seen online, but the glass of  this piece is not very thick - can't compare since I dont have anything Czech in that style myself.

Any ideas welcome,

Astrid

[glassobsessed]

Most but not all of the other stuff in that albums of Dusan's is Czech.... http://picasaweb.google.com/exat53/Q#
Circles seem to have been a theme for Jan Gabrhel for a while.

It will have been mould blown and then attached to a punty so that the rim could be hot finished, hence the polished out pontil mark. That doesn't help much with an id though.

John

[Jindra8526]

John is almost true, it is Cesky kristal Chlum u Trebone,  not Jan Gabrhel  but Stanislav Kral - pattern 12 517 from 1970, see
Glasrevue 1971/12

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo

[astrid]

Ah, thanks so much, John and Jindrich!

My first piece of Chlum u Trebone, and ID'd so quickly too. And of course all this information is available in Jindrich's glasrevues online, but I still have to make time to go through all of them (and of course remember the shapes - I guess it will take a while).

Astrid

[Jindra8526]

Hi Astrid,
without the database navigation system you cannot find relevant information in such huge amount pages that CGR presents.
I am working on such database system several years, never ending story....

I still have some gaps and missing issues, but I have an excellent message for all Czechoslovakian glass friends, I found a resource of complete CGR issues. It will cost me many hours of work, but I will put it together, I hope within few next months.

Jindrich
www.webareal.cz/ceskoslovenskesklo

[astrid]

Your work is extremely appreciated, and I'm sure not only by me.

Just by paging through some more glassrevues, a bit ashamed that I hadn't invested enough time in them yet, I think I found another ID for one of my vases! Just a minute, I'll have to dig up the old thread first, perhaps you can have a look in your glassrevue if the text has any more info on it!

The link to this thread (already in 'resolved Czech'): http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,33697.new.html#new

Astrid