Posted 8 years ago
sklo42
(886 items)
The clear body is ribbed, the leaves have been crimped in a way that represents veins and the top of the handle is also in leaf form.
The seller said they'd been in her family for at least sixty five years. However they would have been produced another forty or fifty years before that. Sometimes it's sobering to reflect on just how old some of the glass we collect really is.
Kralik continued to make ribbed vases with leaf forms added to the rim up to the Art Deco period, when they made them in vivid Tango colours with cobalt blue leaves. See the link below.
Height 23 cm./9 inches
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/173048-kralik-art-deco-tango-glass-vase
Lovely. Love the green.
Green seems to be a winner with you too, NevadaBlades.
These are beautiful, sklo. The petals are quite unusual - fern fronds? I completely agree with what you said about age - it is really something to think about, isn't? Something so delicate survived for so long, and is still being sought after and appreciated today...
Thank you so much Michelle......perhaps I should have called them foliate vases! Though they look delicate they're actually quite solid. They have to be to survive.
Whenever I see glass like this I am awed by the Czechs and Kralik in particular. They made so many different styles of glass, all executed beautifully.
These are incredibly appealing. The finely ribbed body offset by the green leaves - vertical to horizontal. Then the handles. Wow.
Wow to your photos too Peggy.
I think you are right, valentino, luckily for those of us who love anything antique or vintage! Equally some collectors are helped by that long gone habit of setting things aside 'for best' and hardly using them at all!
You are a tonic, Karen! How do you find such lovely things to say?
Kralik did indeed make innumerable décors and their high end production was second to none. Of course I don't have any of their high end stuff :)
Love! What a great pair!
Ian, thank you :)
To all who looked and loved, thank you very much :)
Wow, you have some fabulous pieces of glass - Thank-you for sharing!
I love these Peggy! I particularly love the contrast of the green against the clear glass... beautiful !
courtenayantiques, it's me who should thank you for a lovely compliment!
Hi Rick, thank you sooo much!