Czechoslovakia - Decor families

What do all cased glass vessels from Czechoslovakia have in common? A pattern is made onto the base glass then trapped by a layers of crystal glass. In other words, we can separate decors by what was applied then what was done to the application. These decors can be categorized by Decor families that share in those two variables.

Decor families are what the decors have in common across a wide range of known and unknown producers. Finding specific attributions to the producer can be made difficult for these reasons:
• They operated in the same region
• Their supplies came from similar sources
• They may have shared workers
• They may have had similar demand for specific designs
• They may have had to rush orders and hire subcontractors to meet deadlines
• They may have used common decorators, grinders or metal smiths

One method I have used to sort these producers out is to bring all the decor similarities together for a cold hard look; This combined with other methods have helped me immensely in collecting and buying good glass with the goal of attaining the rarer items.

Here are the common individual techniques of decor:
1. Applied glass chips (confetti, millifiore canes, metals)
2. Applied molten glass (bambus, webbed, pulls, threads etc..)
3. Applied powder glass (powder, glue chip, Welz designs)
4. Tango (solid colors, applied rims, feet etc...)

To me everything else is a finish, a polish or a decoration that gives these decors more diversity.... and that will be covered in the future.