Posted 11 years ago
kralik1928
(202 items)
This is a Large ESC knuckle bowl from the 1920-30's. I like these because the foot looks "Deco" and the bowl looks Nouveau. It is nice to see a small piece of glass with a dense decoration and a rich saturation of color; impressive for its size 11"x13".
It has a great combination of clambroth with purple and yellow confetti that look like blossoms floating in a creek.
I think it took a strong man (or three) to produce these. A gather of confetti glass usually appears from the bottom of the piece but in this one it is at the top. The acid mark is similar to many ESC vases from this period and was applied cold.
Awesome Piece... very informitive on how it was made! Thanks
Yeah, I would have thought they started the whole piece at the foot but the blue pulls tuck under the foot, every time I see modern glass they do things very thick and clumsy as if glass supplies are cheap, the Czechs pushed the envelope (after the iridescent age) and did this frugally for a small profit, they were competing with pressed glass that was single colored and mechanized too!
Changed to Ernst Steinwald or ESC