Topic: Royal Brierley Studio,another variation.

[flying free]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261056638157?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
Green one on ebay at the mo that also looks like it may be part of the Royal Brierley Studio range perhaps?
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[keith]

Seen a few like this recently including a purple iridescent one,I always get a little uneasy when I see one then two,three etc..reminds me of a large vase I thought may have been Murano that I overpaid for at a fair then saw half a dozen similar at the next,turned out to be Chinese,still quite a good piece

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actually you are right.  I have a vase that I thought might have been RB Studio and when it turned up I recall it wasn't.  Same quality well made, but I just don't think it was.
Those white splashes seem to be a device I see around a lot from quite a few makers, that was why I was asking about what time period that dated to.
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[keith]

Ah,the plot thickens,or is that just me

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no, I'm just curious that all these vases seem to be appearing - perhaps it's just I've never noticed them before?
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[keith]

Sorry,just being silly.I've been trying to find more about RB'y but without much success but came across another possible puzzle,on page 361 of '20th Century B. Glass' bottom pic' far left,a small (Caithness )vase using powdered enamels to create textures,this looks very similar to a piece I have with a RB sticker ,so did the label jump?

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aha! and that looks VERY similar to two little textured vases I had.  One is now sold,the other I still have and it came with a Hartley Wood giftware label. I subsequently found another on ebay and the owner said it had been bought at Hartley wood before it closed, so I feel fairly confident the one I still have is a Hartley wood piece.  I wonder if they all started jobbing out these little surface textured vases at a similar time to compete with each other? 
Sorry I didn't mean to change the title  I don't know how that happened. And I couldn't face typing it all again
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[keith]

Now I'm worried,here's the label on this piece and another I got recently,could this be a 'not really a Royal Brierley' ?

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The red trailed one or one very similar was seen on the Style and Design website with an attribution of possibly STevens and Williams or Orrefors if I recall.  I'm not sure how they got their attribution but I think your labelled one clinched it as RB.
I'm not sure what the significance is of the different labels but I would think the trailed one would be an earlier piece.  I wonder if they, or at least some of them, fall under Royal Brierley and not Royal Brierley Studio.  It's quite confusing from what I recall reading, there were two 'Studios' somehow.  I'll need to go and look the info up again but I think it is in CH 20th Century British Glass?
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[keith]

Thanks m,must read more