Posted 11 years ago
kralik1928
(202 items)
Here is a common shape with neet-o weird decor. They were thinking infinity sign or some kind of octopus decor. The base is off-white then the purple color is applied (probably powder glass) then it was embossed somehow...maybe a tong was used while the piece was spinning or a mold embossed it to create the pattern. Adventurine was added at some point before or after the piece was blown to size, mold shaped and cased in clear. This shape is about 11".
Cool Piece Jericho! Love it! Who do you credit this to?
I know the work just not the maker. Base is the same color as those pink with pulled adventurine and controlled air bubbles. This shape comes in confetti, pelleton confetti, webbing (like the minty covers dish) and tango with copper adventurine. Based on the football signature from some ruckl type pieces I'm pointing ruckl but only by association not documentation
Wonderfull! Can you shoot me the whole page from BB? Jerichohair @ Yahoo
. The two on the left are interesting because I thought they are Ruckl. They are also separated in the add... Suspicious. This shape is prodeced with many confetti decors- the farthest left on the ad is possible match to pulled adventurine/controlled bubble previously thought loetz
The West Virginia Museum of American Glass publication "Monograph 121" contains all of the ads from 1901-1941 for both Bohemian/Czech offerings and Japanese glass from that period. They put the Mongraph together as a result of a research request I made. You can buy it on ebay for $16 including shipping.
The ad linked to above can be found in a few different variation, one which has a scalloped fan by Welz in place of the fan in the section to the right.
I would provide an image, but I have not found my copy since my recent move.
I actually contacted Tom Felt at the museum and asked if they could make copies of only the imported glass in Butler catalogs, as I was interested in seeing if I could match actual production to the line art. It was a project I had been working on for a couple of years at that point.
I asked him to look into it and to get back to me with a cost for the reference materials. He contacted me a couple weeks later and said that once they accumulated the materials and looked at what was there, they decided to make it into a monograph and offered me the first copy.
So I had something to do with it inadvertently, and it is a great piece of reference material for collectors and researchers.
It is a good reference based on the insight it provides to American imports by a major distributor. It is a tool through which we are able to gain insight as to possible sources of Butler glass, and also some insight into the exports of some companies if we can identify their glass in groupings.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the glass in the publication was identified as a direct result of it's presence in the monogram. The primary thing identified from the publications thus far, was that some of the groupings were identified as being by a common house. This was done by way of identifying vases using other sources and methods, and then identifying those pieces in assortments, revealing that certain assortments are most likely completely comprised of single house production.
This helped to reveal, as with other glass offerings by Butler, some assortments were from singular sources. The findings, at least to me, have more bearing on Butler practices than on anything else.
Attributing production based on it's presence in a Butler ad would be unsupportable due to the fact that Butler did not name sources. It could possibly provide a lead, but confirmation of an attribution would need to be external of the Butler catalog to be supportable.