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Author Topic: Amethyst wavy ribbed posy bowl.  (Read 2127 times)

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Offline Anne E.B.

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« on: September 28, 2005, 05:30:42 PM »
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/8d68666e.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y195/glassie/2bfceee3.jpg

This is similar in shape to Cathy's posy bowls featured in a recent thread "Nazeing, not nazeing or puzzle?"   Apologies for being a Luddite and unable to copy the link here.  However, mine has a wavy ribbed pattern.  It has a large polished pontil mark.  I'm sure I've seen one of these somewhere before but can't remember the maker.  Can anyone help please?   Also, presumably there would be a flower block to go with it, so what would it look like?  Does anyone have one with its original block?  It seems to have quite a bit of age with wear on the base.  So last question, when would this likely to have been made?

Many thanks :P

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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2005, 12:39:47 AM »
Anne,

Quite a few companies used the optic wave effects - Whitefriars and one of the Webb companies* come to mind, but I'm sure someone in the US would have made optic wave patterns too. The WF wave is more like a swag than a wave.

Oh, look here's a mate for it. The seller doesn't know who made it either, but has also been told "it mite [sic] be webb".

http://www.trocadero.com/glassman/items/306477/item306477store.html#item   **

Not much help, I'm afraid. Hopefully someone who knows what they are talking about can come along and clarify!

Cathy.

*Yes, I didn't realise there were more than one either, and now I don't know whether the optic waves were Thomas Webb of Burmese glass fame or one of t'other Webbs!

** How do you shorten the links? I know you can't just use HTML code.

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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2005, 12:54:54 AM »
Actually I've just looked up the Jackson WF book and on page 70 there's an illustration from a Thomas Webb catalogue from 1930-1931, showing a toilet water set ("pitcher suite"). The wave on it is clearly more swag-like than in your posy bowl also.

So, back to square one. Sorry!

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« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2005, 08:35:37 AM »
I can't help Anne, but what a drop dead gorgeous colour!   :D  :D
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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2005, 10:26:23 AM »
Many thanks Cathy for your comments which are always appreciated and you have been really helpful :P   I checked out the link you gave.  Its always great to see an identical piece.   Interesting that it was listed in items pre 1920.  I wonder how they would know it was that if they didn't know the maker?  Was this a popular design around that time I wonder?  I love a good mystery - in retrospect of course, once it has been solved :roll:

p.s. I hadn't realised that there was more than one Webb company :oops: .  How inconsiderate of them to have the same name! :P  


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I can't help Anne, but what a drop dead gorgeous colour!   :D  :D


It looks gorgeous on the windowsill as I type this, with the sun (inbetween the rain!) shining through it.  I love this colour.  Just wish I could wear it.  Makes me look pale and ill.  Yellow is another colour I can't wear.  It reflects onto my skin making me look jaundiced :roll:

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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2005, 11:48:34 AM »
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Yellow is another colour I can't wear.  It reflects onto my skin making me look jaundiced :roll:

Be reassured, Anne, that very few complexions can wear yellow successfully.  Really dark brown (commonly called 'black'  :twisted: ) skin can look fantastic in it.  IMHO not many others do.  

I reckon you probably could could wear purple, as long as you keep it away from your face.  

I only recently noticed that if I wear creams and beiges now (with rapidly greying hair  :( ) I just disappear into the background!  :(  (Who said that?   :shock:  :wink: )

I don't know why, but I always think of purple glass as being more modern.  (By this I suppose I mean what I call modern - as in '30's or later :roll: ) Am I right in this, or will someone now come up with dozens of Victorian examples to prove me wrong? (Again!  :(  )

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