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Alfredo
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This piece belongs a friend who asked me to identify it. It is a highly unusual Loetz Boule-Boule, the first of its kind I have ever seen. Certainly, a museum piece! The second piece ,from my collection, is 14" tall.
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The chain connection is interesting. I would suspect that many collectors have some of the "parts" and didn't realize that it went to a larger piece.
I have a Venetian dolphin centerpiece that HAD a similar chain connection to smaller pieces. When I first bought it, I didn't know it was missing the chain and smaller dolphines.
This type of item must have been popular in its time. I wouldn't think that too many of this (or my Venetian example) survived complete.
Again, thanks for sharing.
Scott
This is one of those things you come across that leaves you speechless. What a fantastic find!
What an amazing set! Did they use flowers in them? Or were they for candles?
Candles? Are you nuts? And as for flowers, can you imagine what it would take to empty the water? I have no idea what it was used for. Pieces like that make me extremely nervous!
Remarkable. Looks like it would be used as a decorative fence to enclose an area of decoration. Is the chain made of glass or metal?
Believe or not, glass. Kralik also made vases tied to each other by glass links.
I bet this piece was popular around Christmas time. I suspect it was intended as a flower arrangement ensemble for a large dining table (it would be run along the length of a decorative cloth table runner) or as shown here as a mantlepiece. As for emptying the water...very, very carefully! ;)
Hey, that is a most likely possibility!
Every time I look at the vases Sam Cooke's song, Chain Gang, runs through my mind.
Just the fact that this survived intact, glass chain and all, blows my mind!!!
I want all of you to know I am actually TERRIFIED of mine. I have it on a high shelf practically next to the ceiling!
sexy chains yo!
In light of new recent evidence, I am quite sure now this is Kralik's design shift on boule-boule. The chain link between vases is documented in the Kralik glass Hosch catalog. There is no evidence that Loetz ever made chain-linked vases.