Topic: Sowerby vase - Japanese characters

[Lustrousstone]

Did Queen's Ivory always contain uranium though? I thought, note the thought, I'd seen Sowerby pieces in Ivory (rather than white) that didn't contain uranium.

[Angela B]

I will find my black light (which is hiding from me, as they do) and test all my Queen's Ivory this week and let you know what I find.
Angela

[Lustrousstone]

Thank you
 

[poodle7]

Would a turquoise blue Japanesque vase with contemporary gilded mounts top and bottom have been made for a special commision from Sowerby.
I shall attach a picture.

[poodle7]

Just a few more images maybe helpful.
Thanks for your opinion.

[malwodyn]

An exhibitor at the last Glass Collectors' Fair (Nov 2009)had two 'Mikado' vases on his stall - one in a creamy white glass, and one in in a black glass; so far as I recall, similar to the vase in the posting by josordoni back in Sept 2007.  Neither had the mountings shown in poodle7's picture.

[Lustrousstone]

Metal mounts were generally added by the wholesalers or at the request of retailers not by the glass manufacturers, so anything is possible.

[keith]

Do a bit of Japanese myself,that script,as some one said earlier, looks made up,nice vitro-porcelain though,Keith.

[poodle7]

Thanks for your replies, there is a number in black on the inside of one of the legs and it look like the same on the base near the the Sowerby Peacock. no 1211.
Where were these vases retailed and were many made ? Thanks again .

[Lustrousstone]

Doubt that you'll find answers to either of those two questions? Are you in the UK?