Topic: Webb jug

[bat20]

Hi all,this has to be a Webb jug?sadly no stamp and doesn't look like a second,but i'm beginning to realise the swapping of design ideas or just straight copying seems common place,it's 21cm ht has a ring and ones i've seen similar are described as 20's in origin,many thanks..

[Paul S.]

Assume you mean T/Webb  -   personal opinion, for what it's worth, is that this design is too modern looking for Webb.           This appears more like something from Dartington's Ripple range, although not saying it is  -  just that there is similarity, and they did produce good polished pontil depressions like this.
Webb remained more traditional in their designs.

Where have you seen 1920's pieces like this??

[bat20]

Got to dash off now,but ebay under webb glass jug.

[Paul S.]

assuming I'm looking at the right ones on ebay, then those patterns don't match with this close 'ripple' type' effect.             Thomas Webb did produce an horizontal wave pattern (Venetian Ripple I think it was called)  -  quite common in fact - and pre1940 they made a pattern with spiral twisting, although that looks nothing like this one.    They also did Ribbonette, which was a very sharply peaked wave type pattern, and different again.

Unfortunately, access to comprehensive T/Webb catalogues/patterns is not easy  -  although my opinion remains that this is not one of theirs.
Perhaps someone can prove me wrong however

[glassobsessed]

My first thought was Dartington too, no sign of it in Dartington Glass The First Twenty Years though. Definitely no marks on the base?

John

[Lustrousstone]

Jugs are a minefield and almost impossible to ID... IMHO this seems early 20th C rather than later

[bat20]

oops,not eBay,Dettmer antique glass dealer,the Webb jug should come up,to me there are alot of similarities,shape,foot,handle and although the texture is not exact it has the same sort of feel about it,their jug is smaller and again with no markings,i do understand that none of that might mean it's from the same stable.