Pallme-Koenig Glass

The Pallme glassworks was first established in Steinschönau, North Bohemia, in 1786 by Ignaz Pallme-Koenig. 

In 1889 it merged with Wilhelm Habel's Elizabethhutte glassworks near Teplitz and became "Pallme-Koenig and Habel". During the Art Nouveau period, this glass company produced high quality iridized glass, and its finest production was the type illustrated above left. Hot glass trails were wound around the iridized glass forming a network, and the piece was then blown into a mold.

The output from the Elizabethhutte was, and still is, very highly regarded in Austria. Production of this beautiful, highly specialised type of design continued until the early 1920's. Pallme-König vases often have cuts at the top and pieces folded down in a way which emphasis the once-molten nature of glass.

There were several companies with the Pallme-Koenig name and many of them continued to produce glass until the industry was nationalised after the end of the War in Europe. Pallme-Koenig glass is never signed, and does not normally have a pontil mark. The whole vase, with its molten trails on the surface, was blown into a mold pushing the trails into the surface, and then finished from the top.

References & Bibliography:

1: Collectible Bohemian Glass: 1880-1940, by Robert and Deborah Truitt, 1995
2: Glass: Art Nouveau to Art Deco, by Victor Arwas, Academy Editions, 1987.
3: Czechoslovakian Glass 1350 - 1980, Corning Museum of Glass, 1981.
4: Bohemian Glass, by Sylva Petrova & Jean-Luc Olivie, 1989.


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