Moser
"Amazon" Bowl
9"
in diameter x 4 3/4' high
Circa 1920-25
Bowl
in a lovely, transparent amber -- "Topas" -- the lower
portion cut into sixteen facets, and the upper portion
acid-etched and colored in an encircling frieze of Amazon
warriors in a technique developed by Leo Moser, and
produced in Moser's Karlovy Vary glassworks in
Czechoslovakia.
Rim
cut and polished. Two minute rim nicks which can be felt,
but barely seen. Light surface scratches on inside
base.
Base fully ground and polished, bearing a ground and
polished pontil in the center.
Moser catalog number 3094/9.
[See
photos below.]
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Engraved
signature in pontil center reads:
Made in
Czecho Slovakia
Moser
Karlsbad
(unidentified decorator cypher)
This
is signature #7 in the definitive text: "Moser
1857-1997," Jan Mergl and Lenka Pánková,
Moser, Karlovy Vary, 1997.
This mark was used 1916-1938.
Also
see: "Das Bömische Glas - 1700-1950, Band I - Art
Deco • Moderne," Passauer Glasmuseum,1995, page 50,
for pattern and signature.
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Detail
of the trademarked "Oroplastique" decor, an
acid-etched band of Amazon warriors, colored in olive green
and dark red-brown, with a gold band above and
beneath.
The
Amazon pattern had the commercial name,
"Fipop."
$
550. G-03-P
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