Glass vase "Millefiori"
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Artist/Maker: Wilhelm Kralik Sohn
Place of Production: Czech Republic (Bohemia)
Date of Production: 1920s - 1930s
Materials: glass
Height: 11.5 cm.
Style: Art Deco
Diameter: 26.0 cm.
Condition:
Description
The Lenor glassworks were established by Jan Meyer in 1834 as one of the
last ones in the Czech Šumava region. Jan Meyer was the owner of the
glassworks in Vimperk whose capacity proved insufficient in the course
of time, and there thus was no other way than to build a new factory.
Later,
the management of the newly founded glassworks was taken over by
Wilhelm Kralik and, after his death, Wilhelm’s sons who nevertheless did
not agree on its further orientation, and the company was thus divided.
The brothers Heinrich and Jan established a new firm, naming it Wilhelm
Kralik Sohn and dating its foundation to 1830, i.e. the period when
Wilhelm Kralik entered Jan Meyer’s company.
In the beginning, the
glassworks and its new owners were heavily affected by the troubles
caused by the lack of experience of the two brothers. In 1882, the
situation resulted in the departure of Jan Kralik. Heinrich was thus
offered the rich business experience and knowledge by his cousin,
Wilhelm Mathias Kralik who was the head of the Nový Svět glassworks at
that time. He arrived to Šumava with many of his collaborators from
Harrachov. The new business director dramatically changed the production
range of the glassworks, which hitherto mainly focused on sheet glass:
the main orientation was producing the fashionable smelt-decorated glass
with naturalist motifs, thus meeting the demand of European customers.
This guaranteed the sales in many European countries.
The Lenora
decorated glass was initially very close to the Harrachov examples
mainly by its subdued and dark shades of olive green, brown and topaz.
These patterns usually were naturalist decorations in the form of
foliage and flowers and small insects, but also snakes and lizards. The
Lenor glassworks, however, found its unique artistic expression over the
time, based on specific décors as flat pressed flowers with striking
color contrasts and symmetrical arrangements. Lenora moreover produced a
wide scale of smelt-decorated vases and jardinières, decorative table
objects in the form of flowers and petal-shaped lampshades. The
glassworks experienced its highest prime during the 1890s, and many
characteristic patterns and décors of the smelted-decorated glass were
produced as long as until the 1920s, some of them even during the 1940s.
After the Second World War which heavily affected the glassworks, the
company was nationalized and became part of the enterprise Bohemian
Crystal Glassworks.
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