Red Glass Bowl, Chřibská Czechoslovakia, Josef Hospodka (?), late C20th

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Red Glass Bowl, Chřibská Czechoslovakia, Josef Hospodka (?), late C20th

A heavy glass sculptural bowl with extended edges and concave notched sides on a short lobed rounded square foot in, the red coloured glass merging into clear glass at the edges and the foot also in clear glass. The 'chunky' design, sometimes referred to as ‘moustache’ after the artist Salvador Dali, and the treatment of colour point towards pieces made by the Chřibská glassworks in Czechoslovakia. Founded in 1414, in the town of Chřibská, which was originally part of Bohemia and became part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, the factory became known as the oldest glassworks in Europe, until its closure in 2007. With the advent of communism in the 1950s, the firm became part of the Borske Sklo National Corporation and around the same time Josef Hospodka began to work there becoming head designer from 1958-1970 and returning as a designer in 1985 until his death in 1989. While there are various Chřibská catalogues, the pieces are not assigned to a particular designer, although some of them, including Hospodka himself, are mentioned in the contemporary Czech Glass Revue which allows tentative attribution and, known for his organic blown glass designs, Hospodka may well have been responsible for the piece we have here. Similar pieces but are illustrated in Chřibská’s catalogues from the late twentieth century allowing a dating here to the 1980s or 1990s.
Size: Ht (max) 10.5cm, Width (max) 29cm, Depth (max) 12cm, Base (irregular) 5.5cm (max)
Weight: 1.33kg
Date: Late C20th
Condition: Good condition, no issues
Estimate: £40 – 60

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