Posted 9 years ago
sklo42
(886 items)
This is another spatter glass bowl with two layers of spatter. It shares colours and construction characteristics with the two previous 'blue' ones. This time however the predominating colour is red. The orange and yellow are no stronger than the cobalt and pale blue, so red rules!
As the surfaces are smooth, the spatter must be cased, giving layers as follows....clear-spatter-thick clear-spatter-clear. It is quite heavy! The blue ones, also having smooth surfaces, must also have five layers. If I'm mistaken please tell me.
Corner to corner diameter 22 cm./8.5 inches Height 6.5 cm./2.5 inches
Weight 840 grammmes
Hi sklo42! Love this bowl! The colours and treatment is exactly like my Knuckle bowl that I listed this spring. It has an etched CZECHOSLOVAKIA mark underneath. BOB
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/150977-signed-czechoslovakia-knuckle-vase-with
I've added the weight, Lisa, and I will do the others in time.
Gorgeous bowl!
Hi LOUMANAL, I agree that the spatters are the same. I was going to add that here in England we rarely find pieces with provenance marks. Then I looked and found letters.....not etched but stamped on. All that remain are the small case 'ch' of Czechoslovakia. The rest must have been washed away.....you can see traces either side.
Hi welzebub, glad you like it. I had decided not to buy any more bowls.....
rucklczglass! I meant to write Vase as shown and not a bowl. The description is with the link that I included above. I wonder if spatter that is covered in a clear layer like this bowl and my vase, (smooth outside) would be from the same maker. I have other spatter that is bumpy and rough-like that delineates the different colours and would probably not be from this maker. RER (BOB)
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welzebub wrote a very good article on spatter concluding that it was not random. Thus the fact that this bowl and your Knuckle vase have the same spatter will mean they are by the same maker.
What I have found after many years of studying Czech spatter décors is that the differences in the same spatter from the same house seem unavoidable.
I believe that the ratio of colors to each other in a spatter is less important than the mixture of colors present in the décor. So one of these having more of a specific color than another example is less important than the combination of colors found in the spatter itself.
I am of the opinion that the glass houses designed spatters and took into consideration the cost of the color rods used to create the spatter mixture. They could then calculate their costs to set the selling price for examples in the décor. This was, at the time, big business for many of these houses. The shards of color would be laid out on a marver table where they would be applied to a molten gather by rolling it on the table prior to being blown in a mold.
With this type of production technique, ratios of color, and also the randomness of the spatters would vary from production run to production run. What I have found to be true, in spatters I have been able to identify as to a specific house, is that the colors remain basically the same.
My post on Spatter décors can be found here:
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/162160-czech-spatter-dcors-completely-ran
welzebub, thank you again, and perhaps specifically for some idea of the economics of spatter. This would have been very important, though not something collectors think that much about!
I think as collectors we are "romantic" about the product, as it represents art to us, and evokes emotion when we look at and hold it.
Having a background in business management, including the manufacturing side, I think it is important to keep in perspective that this was, for some of the families like Welz, Kralik, Rückl, Lötz, Harrach, Moser etc., very big business. To lose sight of that will possibly allow us to see some aspects of their operation incorrectly.
I think that to see them as a "business" increases our depth of understanding about some aspects of their operation, while making us ask some more probative questions that we otherwise may not have..
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What a fabulous bowl! And post & comments. I love the variety of spatter glass.
Thank you smiata, for 'loving' this bowl :-)
Thanks, Vintagefran, for the love and the much appreciated comment!
Thanks for the love, aura.
Thank you, Deano, AnneLanders, GeodeJem and Radegunder for the loves and like!