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Author Topic: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?  (Read 1566 times)

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Offline marie anne

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Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« on: February 02, 2011, 05:07:31 PM »
Hi,
I bought this vase with several others which are Czech glass.  I'm thinking it may be Zelezny Brod as I've seen similar shaped vases attributed to ZBS but the colours are throwing me.  It's blue inside a uranium tint yellow, cased in clear glass.
Thanks for any help,
Marie.

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 05:11:17 PM »
Hi Marie, looks like Murano (Italian) glass to me, in the style of Flavio Poli for Seguso Vetri d'Arte, although others made similar.

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 05:28:03 PM »
Hi Wayne,
The colours do seem more Murano don't they. 

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 05:34:08 PM »
The colours are stunning, I love this blue + uranium green combo!   :P

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2011, 05:37:27 PM »
They are great.  And thank you for your speedy reply.  I hadn't thought Flavio Poli as I'm not very knowledgeable about Murano.  Although as you say there were lots of people doing similar things.  I love the uranium tint.  The UV light glow always seems magical.

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2011, 07:26:26 PM »
It probably isn't Flavio Poli but it does look like Murano

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2011, 07:57:08 PM »
The colour combination is Murano-looking.  I seem to remember Jindrich writing that Skrdlovice didn't use uranium glass to his knowledge.  On a bit of a tangent - do you know was there much use of uranium tints in the Czech glass factories?

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2011, 08:38:21 PM »
Hmm actually now that you mention it, I've had a couple of Skrdlovice pieces that had uranium and really glowed.  The purple vase at the top of this page, although I don't have a uranium pic, and also the green vase further down which you can see glows nicely.  I'm still 99.9% certain that your vase is Murano though.

http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/bohemian_glass/skrdloviceglass_home.htm

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2011, 08:41:40 PM »
I've seen a piece too. Anne EB had/has one.

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Re: Is this a Zelezny Brod vase?
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2011, 09:04:53 PM »
I'm happy to believe my vase is murano, thanks for your help on that. The colour combination does fit.  I'd just always wondered about Uranium Czech glass after an interesting exchange of emails I had with Jindrich a while back.  Also, people don't tend to mention a uranium tint when selling Czech glass but talk about citrine colours, but with Murano a uranium tint seems to be remarked on.   

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