Schlevogt-Hoffman Art Deco ashtray. Bohemia, ca. 1930-1940

SCHLEVOGT-HOFFMAN Art Deco ashtray. Bohemia, ca. 1930-1940.
Molded green malachite glass.
It shows marks of use, wear, chipping. Almost not noticeable at the top.
Measurements: 6 x 17 cm (largest diameter).

Born in the United States, Curt Schlevogt established his own company focusing on the export of pearls from Jablonec in 1928. In the following years, however, his company also began to devote itself intensively to the production of artistic glassware (tiny applied glass objects made by molding or blowing). This was probably caused by his son, Henry Günther Schlevogt, who was extensively involved in the introduction of this type of production at the Jablonec export company A. Sachs & Co. as its representative in the United States.
At the 1934 spring fair in Leipzig, the Schlevogt company presented its molded glass collection under the brand name "Ingrid". The collection was opened and gradually received new patterns. The most impressive from an artistic point of view were the result of the company's collaboration with prominent artists such as, for example, Ladislav P?enosil, Zden?k Juna, František Pazourek, Artur Pleva, M. Petrucci, E. Rottenberg and many others. The company gained fame and favor of glass lovers mainly for fashion glass materials, jade, turquoise jade and lapis lazuli, of which a significant part of the collection was molded in the Josef Riedl glass factory in Polubný.