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    Posted 3 years ago

    MALKEY
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    BEYERMANN GLASS VASE REDUCTION TECHNIQUE MALKEY THE OMEGA MAN THE VIRUS TIMES CAMEO TYPE EFFECT
    hope the experts can input on this wonderburg technique glass
    cat with a rifle in moonlight chasing rabbits hares in the trees
    bohemian fable ?
    lots of love c w army of lovers
    26th October 2020 year
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    1. Newfld Newfld, 3 years ago
      Gorgeous blue-violet iridescent vase, the hunting image in the forest is so unique
    2. Vynil33rpm Vynil33rpm, 3 years ago
      Very nice
    3. philmac51 philmac51, 3 years ago
      Fantastical piece Omega Man!
    4. racer4four racer4four, 3 years ago
      Gorgeousness.
      Stay well Malkey!
    5. keramikos, 3 years ago
      MALKEY, Beautiful. :-)

      Is it just me, or does it look like the cat wearing boots? That brings to mind the old fairy tale "Puss in Boots":

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_in_Boots

      However, I also tripped on this Beatrix Potter tidbit:

      *snip*

      The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots

      ‘Once upon a time there was a serious, well-behaved black cat ...’ Or so her owner thinks. What she doesn’t know is that Kitty sneaks out at night to go hunting!

      *snip*

      https://www.quentinblake.com/books/tale-kitty-boots

      More about it:

      https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35407846

      I tend to think that Potter's story has nothing to do with your vase, because it's only quite recently been rediscovered, but it's interesting.
    6. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Hi, MALKEY! I love your vase by Beyermann&Company! I have seen it here on CW for many years but this is first time I succeeded to log in. Are you still here? I have seen 3 more vases with that pattern. Hope I can reach you now , 3 years later.
    7. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Hi, Beyermann. :-)

      I'm glad not only that you've surmounted your login difficulties, but are commenting on this post (for more than one reason).

      If you've seen more vases with this pattern, link them if you can. I just tried Google Lens, but no joy. :-)

      Here is another Beyermann vase in a similar decor (however, not the cat motif):

      https://antikes-glas.de/en/beyermann-haida/vase-with-reduction-painting-beyermann-haida-around-1910-p-624.html

      I'm tantalized not only by the beauty of this vase, but what strikes me as a possible Puss in Boots connection. It's true that the original fairy tale was Italian, but it's been around for centuries, and English-speaking people are certainly aware of it, so why not the Bohemians?

      I'm also glad that you've commented on one of Malkey's posts, because it doesn't seem like Malkey has been active on CW S&T for several years now.

      Hopefully, they're all right, and will respond (there's an email address in Malkey's CW profile, but I don't know if it's still active).
    8. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Hi Keramikos!!! Thanks for answering! CW seems difficult to understand I asked for an email to see responds but none. Why are there aliases, by the way? I get confused. However, I am glad to see that an so old post still remains! I have read your idea of puss in boots many times and it could be so. Sadly I am not good at sending links but are you on Pinterest?
    9. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, You're welcome. :-)

      I thought that I'd better respond, because Malkey hasn't been active on CW for awhile.

      I'm not sure what you mean by aliases.

      I think I found your Pinterest collection:

      https://www.pinterest.com/marieolehag62/

      You've pinned a lot of beautiful Beyermann glass, and I see where you pinned Malkey's vase:

      https://www.pinterest.com/pin/pin-p-bco-glass-cobalt-blue-71-ones-found-so-far--820710732109066310/

      This one is gorgeous:

      https://www.pinterest.com/pin/this-fine-vase-by-beyermann-company-is-on-display-at-the-glasmuseum-passau-image-courtesy-of-the-glasmuseum-passau-copyright--820710732103231839/
    10. TallCakes TallCakes, 8 months ago
      unfortunately, Malkey has passed away according to previous posts that seem to have been deleted or otherwise vanished. CW doesn't have a contact option for members. When accounts are deleted all comments associated with an account are also deleted.
    11. keramikos, 8 months ago
      TallCakes, Thank you for the explanation.

      I knew that Malkey had undergone a lot of turmoil, but I had realized that they'd passed away. :-(

    12. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Hi again, Beyermann.

      Hopefully, you were able to struggle your way through my most recent comment on this post, becaues it had a major error in it. >8-0

      What I mean to write was that I had NOT realized Malkey had passed away. :-(

      I took another look into what I suspected was the theme of the decoration on this Beyermann vase, and found something very interesting. Apparently, in the original Italian version of the Puss in Boots fairy tale, the cat was Bohemian!:

      https://bohemiancats.com/puss-in-boots-the-rogue-we-all-love-has-a-long-history/
    13. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Hi , again keramikos! I am having trouble to answer on my mobile phone...I am so glad to here from you and will write more later. Thank you, I am so glad for your answers! / Marie
    14. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, I'm sorry to read that you're having login troubles again. :-(

      Here is the original Italian version of Puss in Boots:

      https://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_piacevoli_notti/Notte_XI/Favola_I

      It certainly does mention that the cat and its family are from Bohemia (Boemia in Italian); however, I could find no mention of the boots.

      It's possible that the boots don't come into the story until Charles Perrault's 1697 French version of the story; however, in that version, Bohemia has disappeared!:

      https://www.as.wvu.edu/vlastinger/304/304-Devoirs/Devoir-02-Contes/Chat-Texte.pdf

      I don't quite know what to think, other than the artist who created the Beyermann design might have incorporated elements of both versions of the story.

      Who was that artist? I don't know that, either.
    15. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Per this catawiki source, Beyermann & Co. production was done mostly by national professionals:

      https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/23876539-beyermann-co-vase-in-reduction-technique

      However, so far, I haven't been able to find any online references that name names, other than the people at the top (Gustav, Frank & Max Beyermann; Franz Schlegel, and Franz Palme):

      http://www.great-glass.co.uk/glass%20notes/mana-b.htm

      https://www.bohemianglass.org/katalog/beyermann/
    16. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Keramikos I love your comments! Anything to help telling about B&Co is soo welcome ???? Look closer at your info when when home again am on camping right now
    17. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Keramikos, sorry I mean ! Not ???? Dont know what happened...
    18. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, No apologies necessary. :-)

      Enjoy your camping trip.

      Regardless of who at Beyermann & Co. created the vase seen in Malkey's post, it seems clear to me now that the inspiration was indeed Puss in Boots.

      The silhouette of an anthropomorphic feline is toting a gun and wearing the long boots typical of a 17th century cavalier, e.g.:

      https://art.thewalters.org/detail/36503/courtyard-of-the-artists-studio/

      *snip*

      Trained as a printmaker and book illustrator, Meissonier specialized in small paintings depicting scenes from French history and literature. This painting on wood panel depicts a man dressed like a character from The Three Musketeers (published in 1844) by Alexandre Dumas père.

      *snip*

      https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1986.68

      (A less dark copy of Meissonier's On a Terrace):

      https://pixels.com/featured/on-a-terrace-ernest-meissonier.html

      I knew nothing about Beyermann & Co. until I started looking into it after you commented on Malkey's post. I have been surprised and somewhat dismayed by the paucity of information out there.

      Somebody at this art glass forum suggested that a museum in Cologne, Germany might have more:

      https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=28815.0

      https://museenkoeln.de/kunst-und-museumsbibliothek/default.aspx?s=1410

      Last but not necessarily least, I found another astonishingly beautiful Beyermann piece:

      https://scottishantiques.com/beyermann-and-co
    19. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Hello again Keramikos! So glad for you helping to find info! Much was gone / destroyed because of 2 world wars and more. I want to find and collect what still can be remained about them and to find their glass. To try to help preserve their history. Are you on facebook?
    20. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, Yes, I suppose I do need to keep in mind what may have been lost in the devastation of the world wars. :-(

      No, I don't have a Facebook account. I see only what Facebook and its individual account holders permit the wide world to see.
    21. keramikos, 8 months ago
      A few more tidbits, some from a PDF at that Cologne museum:

      (Reformatted to make it more intelligible here on Collectors Weekly):

      FAMILY NAME: Beyermann
      CHRISTIAN NAME: Walter

      FAMILY NAME: Beyermann
      CHRISTIAN NAME: Isabel
      SPECIALTY: Jewellry

      FAMILY NAME: BEYERMANN-GRUBERT
      CHRISTIAN NAME: Hanne
      SPECIALTY: gold- and silversmith

      https://museenkoeln.de/kunst-und-museumsbibliothek/download/Kittel%20nachgewiesene%20K%C3%BCnstler%20und%20K%C3%BCnstlerinnen%20A-K-min.pdf

      About Walt(h)er Beyermann:

      https://elbhangkurier.de/2007/07/erinnerung-an-den-maler-walther-beyermann/
    22. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Keramikos, thank you! Did he live in Haida, perhaps? I have seen a notice of a W. Beyermann maybe its him! About Facebook: I agree with you, I dont have it to talk to my friends . But am in several glass groups, very much glass and people discussing. CW seems very nice, too!
    23. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, you're welcome, for what it's worth. :-)

      It seems clear to me from the article at elbhangkurier dot de that Walt(h)er Beyermann was the son of Beyermann Company founder Gustav Beyermann and his wife Berta.

      Walter was born and spent his formative years in Haida (Bohemia), but seems to have spent his adult life in Germany.

      His parents recognized his talent early in life and encouraged him. Leaving Bohemia for Germany probably didn't seem too unusual, because the Beyermann family was of German origin (Gross Breitenbach in Thuringia).

      Unfortunately, it's not quite as clear to me what, if any, relationship there is between the Beyermann Company and Hanne Beyermann-Grubert.

      Hanne Beyermann-Grubert is in fact alive and well in Freiburg, Germany:

      https://www.hanne-beyermann-grubert.de/

      I understand about Facebook having numerous different interest groups. In fact, Facebook also has a huge vintage sewing machine group, which has been another of my interests.

      However, with glass, sewing machines, or indeed anything else, I'm what many would describe as a dilettante, which tends to be used as a dismissive insult. Well, I AM a dilettante. };-) My chief interest is information overall, and I suppose puzzle-solving.

      Malkey's Beyermann vase was a puzzle for me, because I could see that the cat image on the vase was wearing boots. Unfortunately, I let it drop, because Malkey didn't respond to my comment about the boots.

      It's a pity that I didn't find the "Puss in Boots" connection to Bohemia a few years back while Malkey was still alive. :-(

      I don't have a Facebook account, because it's about managing what's known in cyber-security circles as one's personal attack surface:

      https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/attack_surface

      Of course, anybody with access to the Internet has an attack surface, so really it comes down to choosing one's poison(s), so to speak. Facebook just isn't my cup of poison. };-)

      You might consider contacting the periodical that published the article about Walt(h)er Beyermann, because it makes mention of a family chronicle:

      https://elbhangkurier.de/kontakt/
    24. Beyermann Beyermann, 8 months ago
      Keramikos! Hi so kind of you to help making the B&Co puzzle! I will check with them and see if they can tell more. Thanks / Marie
    25. keramikos, 8 months ago
      Beyermann, You're very welcome.

      Good luck. :-)

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