Bohemian Moser Art Nouveau Colored Crystal Glass Vase Deeply Engraved Bird Flowers Leaves c 1895 – 1905

Antiques : Glass, Crystal : Bohemian

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This is a Bohemian Moser colored crystal glass vase. The age is late 19th century to the early 20th century, circa 1895 to 1905.

The vase is heavy, weighing almost 5 pounds. It is 9 5/8” high and 6” wide.

The vase is made of a colored crystal. Moser developed a few colors during this time period for this glass, which is considered to be of the highest quality. I can’t give you a name for the color so I will attempt to describe it. In the photos, the color sometimes looks like a pinkish brown and sometimes like a golden yellow. The color does seem to shift under different lights. In 1895, Moser invented new colors for the high quality crystal used for the deeply cut and engraved Art Nouveau pieces, and one of these new colors was a type of brown. The Art Nouveau pieces used shades of the new colors, and I think this vase is probably a shaded variant of the new brown that was invented, and most likely a lighter shade. The other possibility is the color Moser termed amethyst-mauve.

The vase is deeply engraved all over, which is a form of intaglio. Lesser vases might have just one deeply engraved flower going up the front. However this vase has deeply engraved designs over the entire surface. A bird with spread wings dominates the front of the vase. The rest of the vase shows flowers and leaves.

You can read more about Moser’s deeply engraved Art Nouveau glass, made of the highest quality colored crystal, only during the years of 1895 to 1910, in the book “Moser Artistic Glass Edition Two” by Gary D. Baldwin. Specifically, on page 122, Plate 120, you can view another vase with deeply engraved birds, and the exact same deeply engraved flowers.

The rim is wide and polished flat; it is slightly beveled on each side, or chamfered. The bottom is polished flat.

There are no chips or cracks. There are a few pinprick nicks on the outside of the rim, which can be viewed under a magnifying glass, but are difficult to see without a magnifying glass. There are scratches on the bottom from the glass sitting and being moved about. Any imperfections within the glass are there naturally, and are not flaws.

The vase is unsigned, as is many of the Moser pieces. If you collect Moser, you will recognize this beautiful vase at once as being Moser, for the reasons I discussed. If you are uncertain, check your reference books on Moser glass and read up on the deeply engraved Art Nouveau colored crystal glass that Moser produced only during the years of 1895 to 1910.

Item ID: RL-128