Topic: Holmegaard Gulvase 10" Red-Orange? Confirmation appreciated

[catshome]

Hi,

I haven't been able to find a reference piece anywhere to reassure me that I've got this one right.  Hooped vase included for colour reference as it is definitely orange!

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/displayimage.php?pos=-4600

Weight approx 460g, height is 10.25".

If it is Holmegaard, did they make particular colours in certain years - or all colours from the start of production of the design?

If anyone is able to confirm the maker of the hooped vase - I thought maybe Holmegaard too - and tell me anything else about it that would be wonderful too.

Back to the dusting.............

Cat

[Pinkspoons]

Looks about right to me.

When it comes to the cased Gulvase, they were only initially made in white (Holmegaard called it 'opal') and shortly after that available in red (Coral), blue, red-orange, bright green, dark green, yellow with a white inside and yellow with a yellow inside.

Opal and the yellow/yellow combination were phased out about 1970, and the other colours produced until 1980. There's also a super-rare sage green colour, carried over from Kastrup's palette, which I've only seen twice on a Gulvase.

The hooped one isn't Holmegaard. I'd guess at Alsterfors or similar (but that's just a guess).

[Pip]

I think you're right about the orange one Nic - I'm fairly sure it's Alsterfors also.

[a40ty]

Hope you don't mind me coming in here.. Gulvvase = vase large enough to stand on the floor. Gulv=floor and well, vase=vase, but I'm sure you already knew that. If I'm out of line, just say so but perhaps it would be handy having someone who speaks danish and swedish?

[Pinkspoons]

The first production models of the Gulvase back in 1962 at Kastrup were generally 17"-19" - and so were designed for floor use. It was only later that they made smaller models - but the name still stuck.

And, of course, in Danish a yellow/yellow Gulvase is a gul/gul Gulvase. 

[a40ty]

Yep, you're right. Sorry, I'll keep quiet 

[Pinkspoons]

Please don't - any input is always welcome. 

[Pinkspoons]

When it comes to the cased Gulvase...

A few corrections derived from the original catalogues, rather than incorrect reference books. 

Gulvase is in fact an error, and it should be Gulvvase with two v's. Also, this isn't actually a range name, just a description - Kastrup/Holmegaard applied the same name equally to any other large vases meant to be placed on the floor.

And colours...

Kastrup produced cased Gulvvaser from about 1963 until 1965, and they were available in Opal cased in clear, and Opal cased in Selenrød (a dark ruby red). The latter was produced by Kastrup-Holmegaard until c.1967, when it was replaced by Coral (an orangey-red). Opal cased in clear seems to have been in production until at least 1974/5.

Blue/Opal and Yellow/Clear seem to have been introduced around c.1967 too, with Yellow/Clear being replaced by Yellow/Opal around 1974-ish.

No idea when Green/Opal went into production, or how long it lasted for, nor do I have any firm date for when Gulvvase was entirely discontinued.

But that's all I've got so far.