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The West Virginia Museum of American Glass Hosch catalog is perhaps the best source for the identification of exported early Czech glass, particularly Kralik. On its first page, second row, a series of vases on stirrups or leaf bases are identified as Meteor. I was lucky to have found the second one from the left, C15 (picture 1)

The vase is made of clear glass molded in a spiral, covered in white frit, shading to pink at the bottom and covered by a network of pale green threads, in a variation of one of Kralik's most spectacular and successful decors, Silveria ( I gave it that name because of its superficial resemblance to the Stevens & Williams decor of the same name). It sits on a green tripod stirrup foot. However, unlike the catalog drawing, this one is not 8" but a whooping 12.5". I would really call it a seashell shape. Mine does have a heat fissure on one of its legs (picture 3), which does not affect its overall appearance or research value. Picture 4 shows the size and the Silveria decor variation. Stirrup feet also appear in Deco Czech items and Czech thorn vases, of which I also have examples in my collection.

Recently the Passau Museum published a book on Josephinhütte, edited by Stefania Zelenko, where this decor (and others, previously classified as Kralik) appears classified as Heckert. I openly question such attribution, as I have done already on my website:
http://sites.google.com/site/loetzandglass/Home/