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Anyone have any ideas on this piece. It has age. It's acb and gilded. I bought it from France but I don't think it is French. I strongly suspect Bohemian.
the way the neck is done puts me in mind of Heckert and Harrach. I lean pretty strongly towards Heckert with this one. But, it could be someone else. It's very similar in color and basic glass "look" to another piece I have that is in the Heckert book. No marks.
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What Heckert book? What am I missing. That drip-like top was used on Harrach enameled florals, but those were decidedly more Jugendstil while this vase makes me think Deco.
There is a Heckert book out there now by Stephania Zelasko. She has quite a lot of actual documentation for this one. There are some very interesting things in it. There are bits of this book that are probably going to cause some drama. Things that had been thought to be Kralik that have line drawings from Heckert....I am not gonna start it though... :)
It is very deco in style but I don't think that necessarily means an element used in one period at Harrach wouldn't have been used in another. :) Also Art Nouveau and Deco did have a transitional style period. We first started seeing the Deco elements in the 1910-1915 period.
There is a tie in between Heckert and Harrach as well. Brian Severin has said that he's seen the books from Harrach showing that they made things for Heckert including the decorating at times. but, the piece I was thinking of being heckert with this sort of zaggy rim, I can't find now so maybe I was hallucinating it. :)
The flyer for the Zelasko book:
http://www.glaskilian.de/flyer_heckert.pdf
I have seriously questioned many of Zelenko's attributions. She'll be proven wrong on quite a few, a bet, and I worry about yet another source of glass misinformation. The tactical move is quite simple: from Czech to German.
On another topic, my partner and I have collected owls for years! Does the CW have a category for hem?
yup, there are some dodgy bits but on the silberbands she actually has the line drawings for a bunch of the shapes. They're all together.
I imagine the owls would just be catagorized by whatever medium they're made out of..
I have two or three owls. I love em too
Alfredo - we do have an owls section: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/animals/owls
enjoy!
Maker found thanks to Maria Rosa!
http://www.madforglass.es/french/french_163b.html
This can safely be attributed to Leune
Turns out it is French after all. :)