Posted 8 years ago
philmac51
(210 items)
Three months ago I acquired my first, what I thought was a Kralik Floriform vase, although Craig (welzbub) has, quite rightly and interestingly, sown a couple of seeds of doubt in my mind on the validity of that claim. That some of these pieces may not even technically be Bohemian (reference Danish manufacturer Aarhus). That aside, for the sake of argument and simplicity and because virtually everyone here refers to these pieces as Kralik, I'm doing the same.
Nice purchase at a perfectly reasonable price, shipped from Scotland and packed OK, but disappointingly arrived with a foot detached. :(
Contacted the seller and they very kindly refunded all my costs. So what to do with a broken vase, well as it was a foot and the break was clean and close to the body a bit of epoxy did the trick - displays well and as it was free I have become quite attached to this 'hobbled bobbly' vase!
Like you and many others I love these. I think it's great that you repaired it, so saving a beautiful object. Michelleboo7 is collating images of floriforms with 'bobbles' so she may know more......
oooh...thanks Peggy
You know, I have a couple of Italian, French and Belgian creep-ins to my collection, so although we think these are Kralik at the mo, it wouldn't make them any less nice if they were Danish. In fact, it would make them rather rarer.
So beautiful!
Yes - I secretly think they may be. Many of the 'genuine' Kralik pieces appear to be more delicate - but my two are pretty chunky and robust - unless they're sloppily posted of course!
Thank you Katherine.
A real beauty !!!
Your remarks on chunkiness are interesting, Phil. My first ever Kralik applied flower was a double thorn vase. It was chunky, and being satin glass it was dull. I had been expecting light and delicate and so, feeling it probably wasn't Kralik, I sold it.........