Topic: Val St. Lambert Stemware (Possibly)

[Pinkspoons]

Bought a number of drinking glasses today, and I can't quite identify two designs with yellow/uranium-y (I've no UV light to check) bowls and panel-cut stems. They were accompanied by a number of Val St. Lambert pieces that I have managed to identify, and they share a lot of features with the hundreds of VSL designs that I've seen on replacements sites today... but nothing that ticks all the boxes.

The two designs in question are to the right, the grouping of three to the left I've already pinned down as 'Oreste'.

The tallest is 16.5cm, the other 14cm.

They came from Copenhagen with a lot of Holmegaard / Kastrup glass that dated to no later than around 1940. I've done as much as I can to discount the Danish glassworks, which imported/licensed a few designs from VSL around this period.

Any yea- or nay-saying for VSL (or any other glassworks) greatly appreciated.

[dirk.]

Hi Nic,
I think I´ve also seen the glass on the right described as Villeroy & Boch, but unfortunately I can neither
back up this information or dare to rate it.
Generally there might even be the chance some designs have been made by several glassworks. I was
very surprised lately to find a V&B rummer glass design in (I think it was a) Poschinger catalogue of that
time also.
Perhaps a route worth investigating though... 

[Pinkspoons]

Thanks for the reply.

I can't find very much on V&B glass beyond the mid-1970s, and nothing very similar to these designs.

The home they came from didn't seem to have invested in any good quality glass for the last ~70 years. The tall glasses have plenty of base-wear, too. Although neither of those observations necessarily preclude a more recent production date for these particular glasses.

Forgot to mention in the original post that the tall glasses have hollow stems.

[Pinkspoons]

I stumbled on this...

http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/4268940

...and by "stumbled" I mean I searched for hours looking for something that stuck! heh

[dirk.]

Good find. That appears to be a match. Do the dimensions fit with your glasses?
And it seems Mr. Wolf agrees, too, which I always find quite helpful and relieving:
http://www.glaswolf.de/Koeln-Ehrenfeld.210.0.html

[Pinkspoons]

Everything seems to be spot-on. Mine are 16.5cm, and the ones I've found elsewhere, and on the link you've provided, range between 16.3 - ~16.7cm.

I was hoping that the smaller conical glass (a liqueur glass, presumably) that came with it might be from the same maker - but no luck in finding a match thus far.