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Author Topic: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?  (Read 870 times)

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Offline malcmat

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Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« on: September 28, 2019, 04:15:02 PM »
Milk glass spill vase with wavey rim and snapped off pontil mark for ID .
7cm dia x 8.5cm tall with base ware.
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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2019, 06:11:55 PM »
I'd go with late Victorian early 20th century Bohemian, or there about  ::) ;D ;D

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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #2 on: September 28, 2019, 06:23:41 PM »
Many thanks Keith

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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #3 on: September 28, 2019, 06:43:56 PM »
 ;D I no longer have Gulliver Keith  -  does he show similar shapes as being for spill vases  -  I'd thought this possibly shortish for a spill vase, though obviously it will hold spills.               As kids we used to make them using the carboard centre from a toilet roll - cover in coloured crepe paper - and give to Grandad at Christmas.
I found a very similar shape recently - with that turned up back rim - and I thought a jip piece  -  what do you think.           How about a posy vase?

Not really trying to be contentious, but do we think this really is milk glass, or might it be opaque white glass  -  do I remember something about the edges of milk glass showing a glow/fire?
We once had many chats about milk glass, but as a subject it seems to have gone very quiet in recent times.

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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #4 on: September 28, 2019, 09:33:35 PM »
regret to say the very few pieces of m.g. I once owned, have now gone, so will have to buy one or two examples as a reference guide.       The memorable makers were States factories - Fenton and Westmoreland for example - though many others that side produced the stuff.         I did once have a book on m.g. but that went too - am sure it was made here as well.           I think it's true of most pieces/colours that there's a noticeable translucent appearance with an underlying milky or opalescent presence, and although there are collectors who include opaque Sowerby colours under this heading, there is a difference between their Vitro-Porcelain and true milk glass.                There was a product from Sowerby called 'Blance-de-lait' which, despite the name, isn't milk glass either.
In view of the silence, perhaps no one here collects the stuff.

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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #5 on: September 28, 2019, 11:13:06 PM »
I'd go with posy vase, here's one of a pair we have.. ;D ;D

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Re: Milk glass spill vase for ID. modern ?
« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2019, 07:47:54 AM »
think I'd agree Keith  -  if you look at the Victorian Sowerby spill vases, they're smaller and far less chunky.              This link is for something similar  -  insofar as the rim on one side is turned up and with a generally similar shape - which I found quite recently.

https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=68653.0;attach=227991

correction- can't seem to spell …….    Soweby's product was Blanc-de-Lait.

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