Posted 8 years ago
kralik1928
(202 items)
This Kralik Vase has a very interesting technique. It appears to be a kind of cameo technique; cut-back with an acid.
The interior layer has array of powders floating in a white base. The whole piece appears to be coated with an enamel powder that is baked on in the furnace..... I'm a little bit guessing here but I believe a stencil or wax pattern is place over the piece and acid is sprayed on (in a cold process) to eat away at some of the surface. This technique exposes the pattern of a peach and leaves. I received this one from a dealer in Argentina so it will never make a profit but it is a cool mystery piece with an unquestionable Kralik shape
Other Carpe article
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/77724-kralik--cameo-style-1--carpe
Lovely piece of cameo in the same technique method as
Daum,
Le Verre Francais,Degue & others
just smashing Jericho
Just seen this posting - love it and would make a nice addition to my small collection of pieces in this unmistakable Kralik shape.... hahaha!
common shape.... how about one of the other two?
You know I just had another look at that signature.
I think it reads ‘Coupé’ and not Carpé.
Coupé is Cut in French. Carpe without an accent is Beware in Latin.
No I apologise. I am definitely wrong. The signature on the other piece is definitely Carpe.
Both shapes presented here appear in decors that (so far probably only) I assign to the Ernst Steinwald glassworks. Along with the CARPÉ brand, semicircular Czechoslovakia markings sometimes appear.
Hartmann's "Glasmarken Lexikon" mentions the CARPÉ CZECHO-SLOVAKIA brand (around 1920/1930, Cameo) as an unknown Czech company. Probably as Export markings, such as those used by Kralik, Loetz and other companies.
For Phil: here is another vase of the same shape as your collection: https://www.bohemianglass.org/katalog/vaza-vz-50-1766/detail/