Topic: Wall-Hanging Plaque / Cheese Board w/ Abstract Hen Motif. Poss Scandi/German.

[Pinkspoons]

Very thick hand-cast glass board with impressed chicken design.

I've not been able to find anything the same from the obvious candidates - Lindshammar, Pukeberg, Wiesenthalhutte, Kosta Boda, and even Nuutatjarvi/Arabia did a range of large animal suncatchers with this manner of design.

[Paul S.]

you don't give size Stephen  -  but even without knowing that my opinion would be a suncatcher bearing in mind the piercing for some form of hanging arrangement.
Regret can't help with attribution, but you may well be correct with Scandi., or possibly Czech.

[Pinkspoons]

Sorry, it's 24cm long, 2cm thick, and 1.3kg. Probably a little large/heavy for a suncatcher, but not entirely inconceivable - it's very decorative, and I have run into some absolute beasts of suncatchers before now.

I've had a few glass cheese boards / chopping boards from Boda and Lindshammar in the past, although both have been much plainer. I've found a Wiesenthalhutte board online with a similar shape, but no decoration.

It's Nic, btw, not Stephen.

[Lustrousstone]

Have you checked Glasi Hergiswil?

[flying free]

this one was Ingridglas - it's very different but just in case
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,33834.msg183059.html#msg183059

[Paul S.]

thanks Nic -  sorry about the wrong name             it does sound a tad big/heavy for a suncatcher.

[Pinkspoons]

I checked Hergiswil, as well as a few of the smaller Finnish glassworks with a history of cast glass (Muurla, Lasipat, Humppila, etc.), to no avail.

I'll have a look for Ingridglas now.

[flying free]

Nic it's also quite rooster like  and Portugal use a cockerel motif a lot iirc. 


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