Posted 5 years ago
truthordare
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These Czech interwar glass pieces are not marked, a few of them have been illustrated in the Butler Brothers monograph for the years 1929-30.
With research and building my own focused glass collection, apart from my Ruckl glass collection from the same period, I have found a systematic fabrication, a limited color range in translucent tones, and various shapes that were also used for tango type of bright decors and applications.
The optics range from a diamond texture, a rounded ribbed texture, and a chevron texture. Most have a smooth pontil base center with a star like texture. These pieces in green and clear have a rough broken off pontil area (image 3).
The translucent colors used are clear (or colorless), green, amber, pink, cobalt and purple. The added glass applications are cobalt, white, amber, clear, and orange. I would like to assemble as many different pieces as I can. These are not known as Kralik and you have to identify them by shape, known decor and marks to do so.
I suspect neither of your pieces are Kralik - if you do a little more research I think you may find that they are probably English and made by Richardsons. There are many in the UK market and almost all regarded as such. I'm not sure why you are calling them Kralik in your title while actually saying they are not known as Kralik in your post. You have not convincingly identified them as Kralik at all..
Phil these whimzy baskets were made in multiple combination of colors and were advertised as Czech by Butler Brothers in their catalog.
http://nebula.wsimg.com/a02ed381543ca6de547604a1a77c689a?AccessKeyId=3A908495ACD7ABD44DFC&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
http://nebula.wsimg.com/9ae4dfa3ba348d73e34470ab29911538?AccessKeyId=3A908495ACD7ABD44DFC&disposition=0&alloworigin=1
Thank you for the comment and the loves CW members.
Found a page in Truitt Volume 1, under Hosch, with a series of their catalog pages from 1905 and 1918.
Surprised to find this basket in three different color assortments and the same handle, on a page of glass baskets from 1905. This was helpful if you believe that much of the Hosch catalog glass content for that period was produced by Kralik. Jitka L. is one who does. I will add a link to it when possible.
New page 1, of combined glass basket and compatible shape in 1905 catalogpage fro Truitt's Volume I, the 1906 version has no baskets.
Interesting - but nothing strikes me as Kralik amongst those illustrations.
They could all be for all I know, but I'm not sold at all.