Posted 12 years ago
Kris
(1 item)
I have had this piece for about 8 years and really enjoy it. There are no markings on it as to the collection or year it was produced. I really enjoy it, however I would like to insure it, and have no idea where to start. I was sad to hear of Vizners' passing this past July, 2011.
Kris from Canada
I think this is 7411/19 or 29.
It depends on the size.
If it's 29 cm high then it is the 7411/29 and v.v.
The prefix 74 means 1974.
Here is a brown version:
https://picasaweb.google.com/Jindra8526/FrantisekViznerSklo19592010#5461151138433960722
Thanks,..I have the original box that it came in, and it says 7411/29 on the top left hand corner of the box. Any idea who could best give me a fair market value? As I stated I have the original box that it came in.
Thanks again,..Kris
I'd just check the records on ebay. I'm not a valuer.
Vizner has increased in value recently, as has all post WWII Czech glass. This woud be listed for over $100, and perhaps as high as $200 on German eBay. What might set this back a little is that it was made after 1992, when the government gave the company Skrdlovice back to the Beranek family who had founded it. It's a Beranek label on it.
Just a thought, though ..... labels can be easily taken off.
The object remains the same.
Would that increase the value?
In a way the label gives us a bit more info about the piece and tells us who owned the design of this piece and others like it.
The design goes back to 1974.
Vizner went independent of Beranek in 1975.
The label tells that this one was made after 1992 as Ellwyn says.
Beranek own the designs and have been re-issung some of the early designs.
But only some of them!
What is better? With a Beranek label or without? Or with a Skrdlovice label?
All of this is yet to be decided, but collectors should remember the phrase “caveat emptor”!
By the way there is another interesting Vizner item with another mark of Alchimia Praha on Collector's Weekly: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/29171-frantisek-vizner-art-glass-signed-with
I dont know the exact yeat that it was made, but the box which is very old does say 7411/29 on it.
In the sample books there are three sizes 12 cm, 19cm and 29 cm high.
All three were 9.9 cm wide.
The 7411/29 code on the box is in three parts: year, model, height.
Yours was the eleventh model coded in the 1974 sample book and has a height of 29 centimetres.
You are lucky, I would love to have one with his signature,
The Corning Museum of Glass has dome of his work.
I have contacted the Corning Museum of Glass. I will post the results of the information that I get from them.
AGalWithGlass, Do you happen to know an approx value for the piece? I still have not solved this one.
Thanks,..Kris
I realize this is an old post, just wanted to tell I had bought this vase in late seventies, cannot recall if it had a label, but definitively not signed. And it was displayed in a department store, dozens of them. It was obviously not considered ``art glass`` of any kind and I doubt F.Vizner signed any of them back in the seventies.Mine was not boxed.
Hi IVAN .... the BERANEK label and the signature indicate a later production. I know the pic of the sticker is unclear but I believe it reads "Made In Czech Republic" - an indication of post 1994 production. There is another version used in 1993 when Beranek Glass S.R.O. took over the Skrdlovice works.
According to the bool of Skrdlovice by Bevan Jones and Parik - signed pieces in the early period exist but are "very scarce'. But in the later period there was a tendency to use block capital names of the designer .... not done by the designer him or herself. In a way a 'signature' is a sign of an older piece. Your purchase in the 70's would have had a very different label originally and would not have been signed.
Hi vetraio50,
Thank you for the comment. I neglected the vase for decades and had no idea who designed it. F.Vizner participated in several art glass exhibitions at the time and I suppose some of those pieces were signed.Regards.
Hi all,
it's definetelly later production, after velvet revolution. Beranek production.
The value on Czech market ... I believe really depends on view - original vs. later "copy". Even Beranek was owner of the design, the product was designed by F. Vizner back in 1974 and also produced during that era.
From my view beranek is copy only.
But in many auctions in Czechia these pieces are marked "designed by Vizner" "Hlava design" and no single word about Beranek production.
Back to pricing - http://sypka.cz/vaza-c-7411/a11/d6836/ (small one)
http://www.obrazram.cz/show_item.php?id=d73db7dfa8fa6a77c74e22bac1023da8120213880727&im=2 this one is original, mentioned original label
My view... about 100EUR
best regards