Glass Thingies With Lustres -- Help!

Along with the clocks, my friend inherited a pair of what look like some sort of glass lamp with long lustres. Can you help us ID these? Not sure of height, but about 12 - 15" I think.

 

Decoration one on each side of the mantle. Google lustre a lot came out of Czechoslovakia.

 

These are called Lustres.
As George said there would have been a pair that sat at either end of a mantle or side board.

Bohemia late 1800s
You can look here to see if you find a match and if they are id'd

http://www.pinterest.com/starrydiadem/lustre-vases/

 

They look very nice indeed...I especially like that there are 2 kinds of hanging glass pieces..nice touch...

 

Ah vases -- however, I think that flowers would be superfluous, LOL! I will check Bohemian glass vases with lustres. Does one call this "cut to clear" glass?

 

Vases can be used to hold flowers/force bulbs/ or in this case serve as decoration

 

It does look cut to clear to me ?

 

Thanks, Shiloh!

 

[QUOTE="kentworld, Does one call this "cut to clear" glass?[/QUOTE]

Yes, Cobalt cut to clear.

 

Hi Kentworld. Nice lustres. Love the cut blue to clear. I would agree they are Bohemian, but not Victorian era. I'd say they were made after the 1920's, imho. If they were made in the Victorian era, the prisms would have brass wire.

 

I don't think they are true thingies

They appear more like doohickies

 

Thanks Leah and Cluttered! (Doohickies they are, Terry! )

 

I am going to respectfully disagree. The new ones are brass.

If you look at the pintrest page closely, you will see several Bohemian late 19th century with the same ball type prism.
Zoom in and you will see that they are not brass.

When you find old prisms, many times the wires are often rusted. Brass doesn't rust.

Now the cobalt cut to clear may indeed be early 1900s, and the prisms added later. Particulary as there are two style prisms alternating. Which is not common practice.

Please keep in mind this is just my opinion. I will be the first to admit I can be wrong.

 

I should have said brass coloured. Not brass material. Just for fun, here is a pair of Victorian Bohemian lustres I owned once upon a time.

 

Also just to add some further information, F. & C. Osler from the Birmingham region produced a lot of crystal prisms and specialized in many light fittings from 1807-1960. This British company purchased many lustres from Harrach during the Victorian era. By 1860, Harrach had over a 100 designs. I can only imagine the choices! Lustres have been around for some time and they are still being produced to look like the original. I am not saying these lustres are Harrach, but as a possibility I would like to point out is there could be a marriage of sorts with the lustres and prisms. It is possible the lustre and prisms were produce by two companies. Another example would be like DeBliviss who sold many perfume bottles. They produced the metal mounts, but purchased the glass perfume bottles from other glass companies such as Steuben and others. When it comes to Bohemian glass, it's not a matter of who made it, it's understanding the glass is quality at it's best, imo.

 

OK, looking at google images of this stuff, most with the type of rim and base seem to be late Victorian into the Edwardian age. So, if I said c. 1910, would that be about right? The prisms, unfortunately, have suffered, but the vases seem fine. Prices are all over the place, too!

 

I love Bohemian glass and I bought a decanter even with the chips around the lip and the gold paint missing. I also love Czechslovakian tea pots and other tableware. I bought a Czech teapot with the finial broken off but oneday I will mend it....I do suffer from an acute case of the lazies

 

Oh, how cute. lol Crazy glue does the trick, SOS! Can't wait to see. When it comes to antiques and flaws, I remind myself if I was that old I might have a few flaws myself. lol Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say and most flaws are very forgiving. At least to me.

 

Hi Kent, I'd say Art Deco era, 1920's or after. I would check eBay completed items to see if you can't find a comparison as far as price goes. Good luck!

 

I've seen a lot of these type of lustres because I really like them and I've never seen any with alternating prisms - nor have I seen the ball prisms. I wonder if some were missing and the owner replaced them with what he/she could find.