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Posted 10 years ago
Katzl
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This bowl has an almost "metallic" iridescence, and the inside is ruby red.
Picture nr 4 shows a very similar bowl, but footed, which I bought over the internet. It was so badly packed that it arrived broken. The photo was made by the seller (before it was sent to me). I still keep the pieces in a box, thinking maybe I could mend it somehow...
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loetz or kralik ?
SEAN68 - thank you much for the superfast love and comment!!! :)
I think Kralik?
Your very welcome Katzl!!! :)
it is kralik !! and it looks like the "CROC CRACKLE"
https://www.google.com/search?q=CROC+CRACKLE+KRALIK&rlz=1T4NDKB_enUS561US561&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=CSaTVPHGF4GzoQS654L4Aw&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAg&biw=1524&bih=655#imgdii=_
For what it is worth, I do not believe that this is Kralik production. I am not sure who, but IMHO, not Kralik. Many more companies made crackle décors than the handful of attributions we commonly see.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/110893-kralik-croc-crackle-demitasse
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/142876-pair-of-cobalt-blue-bohemian-crackle-vas?in=liked-this-week
http://www.kralik-glass.com/frametemplate.html
welzebub, Moonstonelover21, CindB, aghcollect and Rick55 - many thanks for the love!!!
SEAN68 - Thank you so much for all your helpful comments/suggestions!!! :)
CindB - Thank you, thank you!!! :)
welzebub - Thank you!!! I'm very curious to hear your opinion! I was always wondering about this one. I have other Kralik crackle things, and this bowl is definitely different from them. I thought it might be what you call "Kralik soft crackle" on kralik-glass.com, but then I was wrong!?
Your right Katzl it could be called Kralik soft crackle !! but these examples can be a little confusing.
they both almost have the same characteristics to some degree.
I ll will leave it at that .
SEAN68 - Yes I thought so too!! But I don't know, I have some doubt!
It's so hard to tell, whitout the possibility of comparing the glass to other pieces in reality!
So I'm most happy and curious to hear all opinions and suggestions about it!! :)
vetraio50, many thanks for the love!!
yes , I agree katzl . some of those photographs are not very clear and over pixelated and very difficult to tell , but there are some great pics out there as well. a good reality of comparing them together side by side . to see them in person. I still say kralik!!
get a refund from the buyer!!!!
return it!!!
SEAN68 and nutsabotas6 - Yes I tried refund...but the swedish "ebay" (called Tradera) doesn't work that way! I never got one. It was not very expensive...
I think it's tragic though, like nutsabotas6 says, that the bowl survived about a 100 years only to be destroyed by the sellers carelessness!
vetraio50 and nutsabotas6 - thank you so much for the love!!!
I do not believe it is Kralik soft crackle either. Additionally, a red ground color is not typical of Kralik production, and to the best of my recollection, I have never seen a Kralik piece in a crackle decor of any kind with a red ground.
welzebub - thats very intersting!! I have two other bowls, which seems very similar to this bowl, and I have also never seen anything like them in Kralik production!?
I will post them soon!
welzebub - here they are... one more mystery!!
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/143416-more-crackle-glass--orange?in=user
vetraio50, nutsabotas6, Michelleb007 and racer4four - thank you so much for loving!!
hello katzl . lets see what Alfredo says!!
sure eye!!!lol!!!
Which would likely indicate that there are likely a lot of mis-attributions of crackle in the marketplace.
You can find a good quantity of some colored glass with a white crackle surface on it being called Kralik crackle also. Unfortunately a good percentage of that product is coming from a California company now, and marketed under the line name of "Margies Garden".
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/98755-kralik-crackle-vase-in-iridescent-amber
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Best-Cranberry-Iridescent-Kralik-Glass-Vase-7-5in-Crackle-Decor-1900-1915-/261706171495?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ceee74467
GREAT information welzebub.
With the plethora of misinformation out there, it is nice to have your informed and researched input on this site.
scott
well I found , some on Craig's website. so I was a little confused as to , why ? and I have posted the link.
so why are the ones on kralik.com ,welzebubs website . called or attributed . but this one isn't ? please help us understand .
Many of those on the site are attributed based on known shapes identified in other decors. The majority of those shapes were also identified by another researcher quite a few years ago. (Alfredo)
In looking at any glass, and I will use crackle here as an example, it is necessary to take into consideration the ground color used, the shape, the surface decor, quality of finish, and the crackle itself. Simply examining how the crackle itself appears to look is not a good methodology to accurately identify crackle glass.
In the case of this example and also the other two, the surface appears to be more metallic, and I am going to guess that in hand it is kind of like a carnival glass finish..... kind of metallic looking and reflective.
Additionally, as I mentioned previously, Kralik is not really known to work in glass with a red ground, and also not really known to work in this type of metallic appearing surface decor.
Crackle glass is relatively easy to produce and simply requires the introduction of a hot, partially worked, piece of glass to cold, to cause the outer surface to crack, or pull apart, and then it is reintroduced to heat and worked further. Crackle glass was produced early on in England, and also several regions of Europe. It is also found in American glass production. It is now made in China, and without labels is sold often, in places like ebay, as Kralik. The white on colored production is a good example of that.
In many cases, when looking at crackle glass, the pieces are quite similar looking, making attribution more difficult, and sometimes unattributable unless found in known shapes. In other instances the crackle style is unique, or the decor it is done with is unique, and attribution becomes very simple. Often it is misidentified when sold, as a piece of Kralik crackle sells for more than a piece of crackle by an unknown maker.
I think in a forum such as this where people post attributed glass, or are trying to ID pieces, it is easy to forget that a very large percentage of Czech, and also other glass, can not be identified as to the specific maker.
I have 18 examples of crackle by Kralik on my website. I have likely 500+ examples in my image archives, which are not identified. IN many cases, although they look like they could be Kralik, I am not even sure they are Czech.
I hope this helps.
well then thankyou for the info.
You are welcome. I have also added a couple of additional soft crackle examples to the Kralik Crackle web page on my site.
http://www.kralik-glass.com/kralikcracklearray.html