A late-1940s Skrdlovice ‘Antique Glass’ bottle vase, designed by Emanuel Beranek

Description

The bubbly ‘antique glass’ range was the first official range designed by Emanuel Beránek (1899-1972) at his new Skrdlovice factory, and was produced from 1942 until c1950. As resources available to Beránek at the time were basic, he devised a type of glass that would hide imperfections. Salts such as sodium carbonate were added to create the many bubbles that run through the body of this glass.

Many of the shapes are unusual, and hark back to Ancient examples, or have natural inspirations. Designed in 1946, this design (pattern number 4633) is scarce - it is comparatively large and is not as apparently functional as a vase, so would have sold in lower quantities. The typical light blue body is decorated with enamel powders and has two applied matching lime green ‘ram’s horn’ handles. Ram in Czech is ‘Berán’, and ‘Beránek’ is effectively a little ram, or a lamb.

This is the actual bottle vase photographed on page 11 of the book ‘Beránek & Skrdlovice: Legends of Czech Glass’, by Robert Bevan Jones & Jindřich Pařík, giving you the chance to own a piece shown in this landmark book.

27cm high, 9.5cm widest

Condition
Excellent original vintage condition, undamaged.

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