Posted 7 years ago
artfoot
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I generally think of these baskets as more "grandmother" than Deco and speculate that they were produced across the decades regardless of the prevailing style.
The red and yellow spatter basket is 6 1/4" (15.7 cm) tall to the top of the handle. The body is floriform, a little over 4" (10.5 cm) wide, and has a hobnail surface. The handle is clear and smooth. The underside shows a ground pontil and a straight-line "Made in Czechoslovakia" acid stamp.
The red and green spatter basket is just under 6" (15 cm) tall and about 5 1/4" (13.2 cm) wide. It has a thorny clear handle and a wavy-edged body with a reeded surface. The underside shows a ground pontil and a two-line "Made in Czechoslovakia" acid stamp.
My guess is (and I will hope for confirmation) that these were both made by Franz Welz Klostergrab.
Nice baskets..... I would suspect that the yellow and red basket is most likely Welz. I have not seen the basket before in a decor I could confirm as uniquely Welz. This spatter is too simple to use to ID the piece. I would say, that although the acid mark is commonly found on Welz production, it is not a mark I use to confirm ID's with. I would also note that it has not been seen, that I am aware of, on a piece confirmed as having been produced by any other company.
The thorn handled example is definitely a Welz basket. The basket shape is seen in a number of distinctive decors, and is also shown with a twisted handle in a high relief building emblem found on a building in Klostergrab (now Hrob) previously owned by Welz in the 1920's & 30's.
The basket form itself, without a handle, has also been see a couple of times as a bowl in known Welz decors.
Exactly what I was hoping for - thank you very much.
Thanks to everyone for the loves.
I Have one of these to , I do remember if ive ever posted it?
I don't know if I did post it sorry. yours are beautiful!!
Love them both.