Topic: Lasi Riihimaki bowl

[Leni]

I keep asking questions that no-one answers  :cry:   I hope someone can help me with this!  Yet again, it's something which arose from our visit to the Cambridge Glass Fair!   

While looking around the fair we spotted a bowl identical to one I have at home.  I bought it for my mother many years ago (probably in the late '70's early '80's) and got it back when she died. 

I didn't register who made it when I bought it, so I was interested to see at the fair that the bowl was marked 'Riihimaki' and had a label on the side saying 'Lasi'. 

Jotting down the names in my notebook, I looked them up on the internet when I got back.  I know nothing about this sort of glass, but everything I saw looked nothing like my bowl!   

So does anybody recognise it?  Can you tell me who would have made it?  http://tinypic.com/1tuh5t

I do hope someone can help me this time 

Leni

[Anonymous]

This may help

http://www.riihimaki.fi/index.asp?id=29FF2512A77C45C7876CCD8971B6D929&layout=esikatselu

click on Matkailijan Riihimäki and then on guide to service

but you will need to wait till Ivo is on line for anything more substantive!
Adam A.

[Ivo]

hum - flattered I'm sure.

It is basic Finnish - everybody should have a smattering....
Riihimäki is the town
Riihimäen = of Riihimäki
Lasi = glass
Riihimäen Lasi = Glass from Riihimäki

 

[Glen]

Tervetuloa, Glen here.

For a little more about Riihimaki and its lasi, you may like to look at the article I posted last week on my website. It's linked off the mainpage
http://www.carnival-glass.net

The article is called "Remarkable Riihimaki".

Kiitos, kiitos   

[Max]

If I'd seen your bowl Leni, never in a million years would I suspect it's Riihimaki.  I've never seen one like it before.  It doesn't appear in my books, and I certainly have no examples on the shelf.

Mind you, I didn't know Riihimaki did carnival glass in the 20's either...

You know...I could really do with a book about Riihimaki.  Who's going to write one for me?  


Max xx

[Leni]

I looked them up on the internet when I got back.  I know nothing about this sort of glass, but everthing I saw looked nothing like my bowl!    Leni

Thanks Adam, Ivo & Glen - and Max!  In fact, it's Max who has made the point for me. 

I had discovered a certain amount of info on Riihimaki Lasi.  I knew it was Finnish - even knew it was glass   

BUT .... as Max says, it's nothing like any of the Riihimaki I found in my searches!  I even Googled the most famous Riihimaki 'names' and ploughed through pages in Finnish looking for pictures of their work, but couldn't find anything like my bowl   

If I hadn't seen it at the Glass Fair and seen the label - which was obviously genuine - I would never had thought Riihimaki either!

Although as Max says, I too had no idea they had ever made Carnival 

So .... still no clues as to who made my bowl!   

Leni

[Sklounion]

Given the almost landscape feel to the image you give, I have one image of something along those lines, by Heikko Kallio, in Finnish Post-war Glass 1945-96, Jack Dawson. Not saying it is or isn't, but its a fine catalogue, and the Kallio bowl is the only piece that feels similar.
Marcus

[Leni]

Given the almost landscape feel to the image you give

Personally, I'd have said seascape, but ....   

I have one image of something along those lines, by Heikko Kallio, in Finnish Post-war Glass 1945-96, Jack Dawson. Not saying it is or isn't, but its a fine catalogue, and the Kallio bowl is the only piece that feels similar.
Marcus

Thanks very much for that Marcus.  Another line of investigation to follow   

Leni

[Anne]

Hi Leni, another piccie gone awol... any chance of replacing it please?

[Leni]

This one's in my gallery, too.  Here it is   

http://glassgallery.yobunny.org.uk/albums/userpics/10048/Lasi_bowl.jpg