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Posted 5 months ago
Alfredo
(349 items)
I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT ONLY ONE SHELF IS DEDICATED TO THESE TWO FIRMS, ABUT WHICH SO LITTLE IS KNOWN. THANKS TO VETRAIO FOR PROVIDING WHT IT SAYS ONTHE LABEL, WHICH READS:
SIGNIFICANT BUT LITTLE KNOWN CENTRE OF TANGOGLASS MANUFACTURE, ESPECIALLY IN THE 1920'S WAS THE TEPLICE REGION. THE TANGO INSPIRATION WAS PARTICULARLY TAKEN (ON BOARD) BY THE FIRMS OF FRANZ WELZ FROM HROB BY TRPLC AND THE FIRM OF FRANZ TOMSCHIK FROM KOST'ANY (1918-1930)
AT LAST WE KNOW THAT WELZ DID INDEED SURVIVE UNTIL THE DECO EXPORT ERA. BOTH COMPPANIES ARE REPRESENTED IN THE BUTLER BROTHERS CATALOG.
INERESTINGLY, THE VASE IN THE MIDDLE IS A PUZZLE. TO WHICH SIDE OF THE PICTURE DOES IT BELONG?
NOTICE THAT ALL OF THE TOMSCHIK VASES ALL SHOW VARIATIONS ON A CENTRAL GEOMETRIC SHAPE, INCLUDING THE "ZIGURAT" IN THE BACK.
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The Website these were taken from did not show all the Exhibit Cabinets.
There were far more cabinets in the actual exhibit.
For those that asked earlier, the Exhibit Catalog did not make it into print.
I was sure of it. But this is what we have, this is what you get. I have been told there are more pictures on internet.
I think these exhibits are from the Muzeu Vyso?iny v Havlí?kov? Brod? version of the travelling exhibition. From memory it did travel to three or four different museums. The set up changed in different locations. This is the top shelf from this cabinet shown on the website:
http://rover.rajce.idnes.cz/Tango_sklo/#10_vitrina_s_tango_sklem_-_sklo_inspirovane_tancem_tango.jpg
The next shelf is devoted to Rückl, the third to "regional variations". This site doesn't have a photo of the bottom shelf.
All of the forty photos from this version can be seen here:
http://rover.rajce.idnes.cz/Tango_sklo/
That reads Muzeu Vysociny v Havlickove Brode without the Czech accents.
This has been one of the most interesting posting I have ever done, and I thank you all for the input and the invaluable links. Now we have solid confirmation of Welz, Ruckl and Tomschick decors, among others. Now, to start the reclassifying of our own Tango collections. I wish someone would tell the Czech we have so much of it! Thanks to the Butler Brothers. And now I have the first line for my article on Czech glass and them!
On one of the sites I remember Jitka saying that little of Czech Tango remains there in Czechoslovakia; it seems that the economic conditions of the time demanded that the output be exported,
Hi Al! I'm confused - take a look at http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/81570-ruckl-bohemian-yellow-and-white-variegat?in=441#comment-297603
I don't know about the rest, but I thought the last one in that post, the trophy vase, looked identical to the one in this post. Far left, just behind the red, in picture one and two. I can't tell from the pictures - what makes the one in Charcoal's post Ruckl, if this one is Welz? Is there a difference in the decor, or the shape, or the production technique? What am I missing? Can you help? Or is it just impossible to attribute these beyond calling them Czech?
For additional insight please see the first vase in the Variegated Spatter section of this link. It has the same yellow and white variegated decor shown above. http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/bohemian_glass/spatter_glass.htm
Now go to this cw posting to see that same exact shape with a Antonin Ruckl & Sons label.
http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/75739-12-ruckl-red-shimmy-vase-with-1903-stic