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MOSER GLASS PRODUCTS

Our company are able to transmit the sell all Moser glass products. With regard to our brokerage contract with the company Moser we have for all citizens 5% discount and for all diplomatic staff we have 20% discount for all products of the Moser company.

For your informations you can look at the Moser websides : http://www.moser-glass.com/en/

If some interest, let us know and we will contact you to the original Moser Shop in Prague or another cities in the Czech Republic.

The list of some Moser products is under.

SOMETHING ABOUT THE MOSER GLASS AND THE COMPANY MOSER.

Company vision

Drawing inspiration from our long tradition and the spirit of modern life, we create high quality products of outstanding beauty. We satisfy the needs and wishes of our customers with a wide range of elegant products for the dining table, as well as decorative and gift items, all proudly bearing the name Moser. We focus all our energy into strengthening the Moser brand on the world market as a symbol of uniqueness, quality and enduring value.

Glass of Kings - King of Glass

To become an owner of a drinking set bearing the Moser trademark has always been a matter of prestige for significant personalities from all over the world. The names of prominent owners, such as popes, emperors, kings, maharajahs, shahs, presidents, prime ministers, members of governments and diplomats whose initials, coats-of-arms or national emblems decorate Moser drinking sets, have been proving best the steady-state value, first class quality and popularity of the Moser products. For many of these celebrities it has been a constant reminder of their stay in Karlovy Vary and a remembrance of their visit to the glassworks. There they could witness how Moser goblets or vases come into existence

Stemware and barware

Luxury Moser table suites in classic and modern shapes are delicately mouth blown, cut, gilded or engraved. Their style is timeless, never bending to trends and transient fashion. Table sets that might graced the tables of European aristocracy and many world celebrities become part of your life enhancing the pleasure of personal milestones and celebrations. Moser drinking sets complement dinnerware patterns of the finest and most exclusive producers. They will glare as your most precious jewel on the festive tables. Their high artistic standard and perfect hand elaboration guarantee their everlasting value.

Decorative objects

The collections of decorative objects of classic and modern shapes are mouth blown, hand cut, painted with gold and platinum or engraved. Style is not restricted to any one era or transient fashion and distinct from the others. Decorative items - vases, bowls, ikebanas, centrepieces, ashtrays, candlesticks and much more, distinguish themselves with the unique colours of glass. Moser colours - Alexandrite, Aquamarine, Beryl, Eldor, Rosalin and topaz resemble the sparkling precious stones. This colour spectrum is enlarged with colours which are melted irregularly - dark blue, dark violet, ocean green and smoke. The modern decorative items are produced in the colour combinations which offer the interesting optic effects.

Art engravings

Engraved glass ranks among the highlights of art design. The Moser engraved glass has acquired reputation worldwide thanks to its characteristic hand manufacture. An exceptional talent, aesthetic feeling, manual skills and diligence are the features thanks to which engravers turn into real artists. Engravings executed precisely to very last detail are rightfully considered art works of great value. The craftsmanship of the glassworks engravers is exemplified in unique art engravings executed after paintings and graphics of famous artists, such as Hieronymus Bosch, Sandro Botticelli, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Albrecht Dürer, Gustav Doré and Alfons Mucha. Moser engravers Konstantin Hable Sr. and Jr., Ivan Chalupka, Vladimír Skála, Milan Holubek, Tomáš Lesser, Vlastimil Selinger, Marian Staněk and others achieved virtuosity of great masters of the 19th century. Their works into which they imbedded or have been still imbedding their individual style have enriched the world collection of engraved art glass. Engraving is a very old technique borne in the Ancient Rome. It has developed from ring gems, tiny engravings, which have been transferred onto larger and larger items, glasses and vases. This art came to Europe over France and Italy in the 16th century. To Central Europe it was brought by Emperor Rudolf II, who used to invite engravers particularly from Italy to produce for him richly decorated beakers. Engraved glass has been a luxurious article in demand for centuries.

Limited editions

The collections produced in limited editions after design of the leading glass designers represent extremely interesting offer of the art works. Among their authors belong: Karel Bečvář, František Janák, Vladimír Jelínek, Pavel Kopřiva, Karolína Kopřivová, Jan Kotěra, Jan Mareš, Lino Sabattini and Daniel Eltner, Jiří Šuhájek, Petr Vadura, František Vízner and many others. Each art piece, with a number of limited edition, is signed by Moser and the artist. A numbered Certificate of Authenticity is provided.

Punch set 2005 & 2006
Channel 2837/2
Sumer 2839
Bass 2848 and Tenor 2849
Three Graces 2860/2
Nuvole sul Mare 2879/2 and Nuvole al Tramonto 2876
In Form 2940 – 2948
Nexton 2960 and Ideon 2961
King 3051 and Queen 3052
Angel 3055
All the Jazz 3057
Wave 3063

Gifts inspirations

Moser offers a wide range of gifts for every occasion. Select from clear glass or a scale of unique Moser colours in gift packaging. You will please your family with a glass gift from Moser.

Manufacture

Each product requires hours of handcrafted processing by experienced and skilful glassmakers. The handcrafted character of the work has been maintained at the Moser glassworks till today. The secrets of manual handicraft for decorating the products have been traditionally handed down by old generation of craftsmen to younger ones.

Work of Art

Blowing

Every piece of Moser glassware is wrought by fire and given shape with human breath. Making a piece of glass is an act of teamwork, with each worker dependent on the others. Timing and precision are essential, because glass cools quickly. In Moser glassworks, a team of three workers whose tasks are strictly defined attends each pot. The team has its own hierarchy. There is the master or gaffer, who is the most skilled and experienced of the group, the chief blower and one helper - the gatherer. The gatherer gathers a gob of molten paste on the end of its blowpipe and blows the flask. The chief blower places the ball of molten glass into a moistened wooden mould, the mould is closed and the blower blows through his spinning mouth-pipe until the molten glass coats the walls of the mould. The mould is then opened and the glass is lifted out in its new shape. The blowpipe is then handed to the master, who shapes the stem and the foot by spinning it against a wet wooden tool held in one hand. When these successive operations have been completed, one helper puts the still extremely hot glass in the tunnel-like annealing oven through which it glides on a conveyor belt. Here the glass will submit, for 1 to 24 hours, but in the case of extremely thick pieces much more, to a gradual lowering temperature. Only when completely cold is the glass ready for cutting. An important part of the hot work is the fabrication of coloured glass. The process involves metallic oxides or metals, which are added to the original composition to produce the colours: for example, cobalt oxide produces blue colour, nickel oxide produces violet, etc. Before moving on to the cold workshop, the glass must be submitted to a preliminary inspection - the first quality control, to insure that it meets the right dimensions and is free of any imperfection. The object not corresponding to the required parameters in the thickness or length of a stem, with a bubble in glass or a scratch invisible to the untrained eye are destroyed and then recycled. The glasses, which successfully pass the test, are ready for cutting department. But first, the cap that connected the blowing pipe to the incandescent ball is removed by means of thermal shock. Than the sharp edges are rounded off.

Cutting

It consists in cutting of the glass to minutely varying depths to create the required motifs or designs. The cutters implements are finely-tooled, high-speed wheels with variable incision capacities. They delicately place the glass against these wheels in order to obtain the desired outline. These wheels could be from natural or synthetic material. Moser glassworks realizes different kinds of cuts, from panel cuts used to create the services Lady Hamilton, Pope etc, to diamond cut typical for the service Splendid - The Prima Dona of Moser’s stemware.

Engraving

The extremely meticulous work of engraving requires professionals of the first rank. The qualities they must possess, talent, aesthetic judgement, manual dexterity and precision, make them real artists. Among the best engravers belong Milan Holubek, Tomáš Lesser, Vlastimil Selinger, Vladimír Skála and Marián Staněk. All of them are inspired with the heritage of the great Moser master engraver Ivan Chalupka. The engraving wheels are minuscule, since they are used not to engrave regular geometric shapes, but fanciful designs and patterns – hunting scenes, flowers, human figures, monograms etc. Moser uses two kinds of engraving wheels, carborundum wheels used for deeper decorations as Hunting Scenes and cooper wheels used for very delicate motifs. Moser engravers can translate many kinds of designs into glass including the paintings of great masters.

Gilding

After being cut or engraved several products are also painted. Dextrous painters apply thin threads of gold and platinum with a fine brush not only at the rim of a glass, but also on previously engraved or etched motives. For different decorations different kinds of brushes are used. Many products are decorated with “oroplastic“, a process in which ornamentation is first etched into the glass and then gilded. The painted products are burned in an electrical oven in a temperature about 540°C.

Polishing

The final process is the hand polishing of gilded glasses, using agate or hematite stones. The brilliance the product gains after this operation points out its beauty and elegance even more. No chemical polishing is used at Moser Glassworks.

Final quality inspection

The objects that emerge from these works after passing through quality control, that takes place after each single process, are marvels in glass and they have the right to bear the name Moser. Products showing any imperfection, frequently invisible to the layman’s eye, are broken and the scrap is reused in a new melting process.

Development of new products

From its beginning Moser factory has developed a formula for manufacturing glass as hard as rock and as brilliant as lead crystal, without using lead. This composition is very suitable for Moser marvellous engravings and much more ecological than lead crystal. Moser glass belongs to potash-lime glass. The raw materials used for making it are silica, potash, soda, other chemical substances and recycled glass. The exact recipe determines its hardness, brilliance, and the colour. The entire mixture is heated in the furnace to a temperature up to 1470°C for about 15 hours. The molten mixture becomes an incandescent substance, which at about a temperature 1280°C the glassmakers start to form into objects. Moser uses pot furnaces. Each furnace has six to eight pots (glory holes) from which the glassblower using a long iron blow-pipe lifts out the required quantity.

Typical Moser colours are melted with the addition of noble earths and metal oxides. All decorative items, and often even some drinking sets, are offered in clear and in six basic transparent colours: Alexandrite, Aquamarine, Beryl, Eldor, Rosalin and Topaz. Dark colours, such as Dark blue, Dark violet, Smoke and Ocean green are melted irregularly, based on the special customer requests. They originate in the colours of precious stones. They are significant through their more delicate and more pleasant shades, which perfectly complement the colours of painted porcelain, and guarantee an elegantly and tastefully laid table.

As concerns customised products, we offer these in six colours: Amethyst, Aurora, Blue, Green, Reseda and Rose.

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