Pallme-Konig & Habel Iridized Vase

Offers welcome! These gorgeous little vases are very desirable and hard to find. Here’s some good information from the Glass Encyclopedia: The Pallme glassworks was first established in Steinschonau, Austria, in approximately 1786 by Ignaz Pallme-König. Around the turn of the century they merged with Wilhelm Habel's Elizabethhutte glassworks near Teplitz and became known as "Glasfabrik Elisabeth, Pallme-König and Habel". During the Art Nouveau period, this glass company produced high quality iridized glass. Hot glass trails were wound around the iridized glass forming a network, and the piece was then blown into a mold so that the trails were pressed into the glass. Pallme-König and Habel glass is not usually signed, and does not normally have a pontil mark. The whole vase, with its molten trails on the surface, was normally blown into a mold and then finished from the top. It is often confused with Loetz glass, the major Austrian glass maker of the Art Nouveau period. Loetz also made iridized glass vases and bowls with trails of glass around the outside. Very often these kinds of Loetz trails are finer, and are not necessarily in a contrasting color to the vase itself. Loetz also made glass with trails that have been flattened and smoothed to the surface of the vase, again distinctly different from Pallme König and Habel.