Posted 10 years ago
IanBrighton
(573 items)
Apologies again for any repeat posting. Spring clean!
There appear to be 5 orange tango vases for every blue, green, yellow, black or white one. Colours in increasing scarcity seem to me to be: (1) yellow, (2=) blue or white, (3=) green or pink or purple, (4) black, (5)clear (I have not seen any definite Czech 1920-1935 clear bottom-up spatters in clear). Plenty of modern ones - see the comment below.
The sizes here are from 11.5-18cm.
They seem to be channelling Schneider but in a more populist, industrial, mass-produced way.
The green one is labelled as shown, the dark blue has a Kralik (correct me if wrong) arched mark.
I would be interested to know if the colour guide above is heading in the right direction and if anyone has seen a clear bottom-up spatter!
Ian, I saw a clear vase shaped rather like the one in your avatar, with spatter at the bottom and swooping up the side a short ways, it had a clear label saying Made in Poland, I didn't take it because I felt it was not of much value being modern. Maybe I should have, as an investment piece? They weren't asking much for it, a few dollars as I recall. What do you advise?
Good point - what I mean above, is that there are no definite 1920-1935 Czech clear bottom-up spatters in the style above that I have seen.
There are plenty of modern ones, and, no, I would not advise buying them as an investment! Only if you love it and can live with it every day, and at a couple of dollars why not if this is the case?!
There are some good Polish manufacturers but I don't know anyone collecting them, I think they produce more daily / utility ware, but could be wrong.
Ah, thank you, you confirmed what I believed, that it was only worth keeping for myself, and with space so limited, I passed. Pretty glass, though. Love spatter. :)
Great assortment of some pretty hard to identify stuff!! But you know that...... I have decided that in some ways you must be a glass ID masochist!!
The arched mark is Kralik if the O's in the mark are open at the top and bottom. That is the generally accepted thought. I have never really decided what to make of the small oval label. Not seen that often.
I may be way off base here, but it seems to me that in many instances the shapes spatters are found in, are shapes that seem to have mostly been used on spatter décors.... that alone would make ID an even more complicated matter.
But I am sure that will neither diffuse your enthusiasm for the décor style, or sway you from your single minded attempts to identify some of them.... :-)
I do have to admit though, they look really good together......
For what it is worth, Kralik did a bottom up spatter on a translucent light green uranium ground. That would be the closest to a clear ground I can think of having seen.
Thanks for the comment, Craig. I would love to see the uranium version.
Haha! I live in hope of the definitive ID on all of them but, as you infer, it is more enthusiastic optimism than reality! I don't mind as long as they are keeping each other company. I have long ago decided that it is going to be impossible for 95%-plus of these!
The open "O" also appears on pieces clearly identified as Reich's Krasno works.
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