Topic: Blue Pearline Creamer - ID = Davidson

[mhgcgolfclub]

A blue pearline creamer which for the first day thought it was almost certain Henry Greener, the pattern looked familiar. But now I am beginning to think it maybe Davidson.
The Greener patterns which I thought looked similar after checking do not match.
The creamer is not marked.
Height 4.75"

Thanks Roy

[mhgcgolfclub]

The nearest pattern I can find is a Davidson pickle jar RD 153858 registered on the 2nd August 1890.

A link to a Davidson pickle jar on ebay http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Antique-Victorian-George-Davidson-Buttonhole-Glass-Pickle-Storage-Jar-Circa-1890-/171667025800?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item27f826ef88

Roy

[Lustrousstone]

I would say it was the same

[mhgcgolfclub]

Yes I would say the same , I have just found a registered Davidson blue posy basket in the same pattern. I do not think I have ever seen another piece of blue pearline in this pattern.

Roy

[Sid]

Roy

Davidson's Suite 1891.  Pictured in a c1894 Davidson catalog held by the Rakow Library in Corning, NY.

Nice piece!

Sid

[agincourt17]

Here is an example with the matching blue pearline sugar bowl.

I have never seen a piece in this RD 153858 pattern in primrose pearline, and the creamer and sugar are the only pieces that I have seen in the pattern in blue pearline, so a look at the blue pearline posy basket would be interesting. 

I have seen the posy basket and circular plate in this pattern in amber glass, but the vast majority of pieces seem to be in clear glass.

Fred.

[mhgcgolfclub]

Thanks Sid and Fred

Fred the posy basket was only in blue not pearline.
You say you have only seen the sugar bowl and creamer in pearline would you say they are quite rare, its just that I seem not to remember seeing pearline in this pattern or I am just getting old. I do have a larger jug in the same pattern in my Welsh Dresser at present but only in clear glass.

Roy

[agincourt17]

Roy, the Davidson RD 153858 (1891 Suite) blue pearline sugar and creamer are certainly uncommon.

On page 74 of Raymond Slack's "English Pressed Glass 1830-1900" there is a 4-sheet colour advert from the Pottery Gazette of 1 April 1893 showing Davidson's primrose pearline and blue pearline pieces. The advert shows 5 pieces in blue pearline corresponding to the RD 153858 (1891 Suite) - a 4-piece water set (comprising a large jug, a pair of tumblers and an underplate/tray), plus a lidded biscuit box (with, I think, an attached underplate). I can't remember seeing photos of actual examples of any of those advertised RD 153858 (1891 Suite) shapes.

There are no 1891 suite pieces in the primrose pearline sheets from the Pottery gazette advert.

By the way, I have never seen any Davidson RD 153858 (1891 Suite pieces) in plain blue (with or without RD numbers) either. 

Fred.