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Author Topic: Possible Georges Briard item?  (Read 4927 times)

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Offline ChangeLady

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Possible Georges Briard item?
« on: April 03, 2006, 02:00:27 PM »
I have a set of glasses listed for which I don't know the maker. A member has suggested they might be Georges Briard. Doesn't anybody out there know? It's item 7396126899. Thanks.

Beth

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Possible Georges Briard item?
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2006, 06:19:38 PM »
Beth I looked at your item and they are nice. I also looked in Pina's book "Designed & Signed 50 & 60s glass, ceramics, and enamel wares. I did not find this particular design. If you look very carefully around the deisign, usually there is a signature. Briard was not the only designer of this style so it could be by someone else. Hope this helps a little Terry

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« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2006, 08:56:07 PM »
It should be signed if it is Georges Briard.

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Thanks. No signature
« Reply #3 on: April 04, 2006, 05:12:49 PM »
Connie and Terry, thanks for responding. I've looked all over the glass with a magnifier and can't see a signature. It's such a shame, because they are so beautiful, yet they aren't selling.   :cry:

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Possible Georges Briard item?
« Reply #4 on: April 04, 2006, 06:01:47 PM »
there will not be a signature, Briard never went anywhere close to them. The design of "arab" polo players is actually a traditional Persian motif, and the shape is persian tea glasses. I vote factory made persian bazaar tea glasses with screened decoration.

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« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2006, 06:10:37 PM »
Ivo -

When Terry and I talk about the item being signed, we don't mean that Georges Briard actually signed them  :lol:  At least what I meant was that the glasses would have Georges Briard as part of the design or screen printed on them like these Fred Press glasses.

http://www.grayhorseglass.com/items/293810/en6store.html


I don't have any Georges Briard glasses at the moment, but the Fred Press are of the same era and style.

Also the game is probably Cho-gan which was a precursor to what we know as Polo.

I have pendant with similar decoration, hence I looked up the history of the game

http://www.grayhorseglass.com/items/363216/item363216store.html#item

 8)

Amazing the infomation yu acquire in this business  :lol:

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Thank you for so much feedback!
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2006, 12:44:45 AM »
Grayhorse,

I checked out the Fred Press items you pointed me to. They in fact look a lot like my glasses, stylewise at least. Can you recommend a good reference book for this genre of glass but not specific to a particular maker? I have a bunch of depression and elegant glass reference books, but nothing about this kind of art glass.

Again, thank you for all this info!

Beth

Connie

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« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2006, 12:50:01 AM »
Beth - I would recommend the same book that Terry mentioned in this thread earlier - Designed and Signed by Leslie Pina.

 

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