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Title: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Leni on January 27, 2008, 09:02:51 PM
I'm sure I've seen something like this amber 'mushroom' bowl before, but I can't remember where. Can anyone tell me who it's by?  Diameter 8 inches across the top and the base is approximately 3 and a half inches.  Has a nicely polished out pontil mark.   
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Mosquito on January 27, 2008, 09:32:00 PM
This is quite a common shape, seemingly very popular in the 1930s and made by a number of firms. Yours is possibly by Stevens & Williams/ Royal Brierley, I had a very similarly shaped example in their rainbow glass, shown below. I believe Webb, amongst others, also made this type of posy vase.

There were also many pressed pieces made in this mushroom shape such as Bagley's 'Elf' posy and Jobling's 2595 pattern.

Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Leni on January 27, 2008, 09:41:06 PM
Steven, your's does indeed look very like mine!  :D  Does it have the same polished out pontil?
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Mosquito on January 27, 2008, 09:44:29 PM
Yes Leni, it has a nicely polished out pontil :)
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Anne on January 27, 2008, 09:49:57 PM
Dunno who Leni, but I have a pale blue one that looks about the same:    

http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-1059
http://yobunny.org.uk/gallery1/displayimage.php?pos=-714

I think I asked about it on the board a while ago but no-one knew who it was by.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Anne on January 27, 2008, 09:52:47 PM
Found earlier topic here: http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,3976.0.html :)
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: David E on January 28, 2008, 01:04:46 PM
I believe Webb, amongst others, also made this type of posy vase.
Webb did indeed produce these - I have a few wave-ribbed types, and they may have produced plain types. Might be also worth considering Richardson as a possible maker?
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Leni on January 28, 2008, 02:05:34 PM
Thank you  :)  Any idea of the date?
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: David E on January 28, 2008, 06:32:25 PM
Oooh, you'll need an expert for that.

Stab in the dark: a period from 1935-55? I do have some in uranium (so possibly only pre-war), and the acid-stamp indicates manufacture between 1935-1966.

The amber colour was used quite a lot by Webb, so is there any small acid-etch mark on the base?
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Mosquito on January 28, 2008, 07:07:33 PM
1935-55 sounds right to me. I don't know any dates for the blown examples but pressed mushroom posies can be dated to this period. Jobling's 2595 pattern was registered in 1935 and, according to Chris & Val Stewart's excellent site, Davidson's 204D posy was produced 1935-54 so the shape certainly seems to have been in fashion at that time.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Lustrousstone on January 28, 2008, 07:34:28 PM
Same sort of date for the Bagley Elf as well, 1935-1975, just longer!
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Anne on January 28, 2008, 08:37:41 PM
Definitely no mark on mine at all - I've been over it with a magnifier.  Is the blue a known Webb or Richardson colour?
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Leni on January 28, 2008, 10:38:25 PM
Definitely no mark on mine, either!  :-\
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Frank on January 29, 2008, 11:52:15 PM
As far as the shape is concerned. Monart had variations on this shape from the 1920's.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Leni on January 30, 2008, 09:25:25 AM
I know of the various pressed glass bowls in this shape, but I thought this blown type might be later - perhaps '50's?  Not sure why  :-\ 

Anyway, it has now found a place standing up ( :o ) on a window sill, and looks fantastic with the light streaming through it!  :D  (OK, I know, it'll probably burn the house down!  LOL  ::) ) 

Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Frank on January 30, 2008, 10:37:28 AM
Nazeing also had this shape in their 1930s catalogue as Posy Bowl in two styles of finish and several sizes up to 14 inches, again it would not be distinctly different to yours. And their is at least one other type regularly seen that is generally thought to be 30s-50s and always gets described as Monart or Nazeing but was neither.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Tony H on January 30, 2008, 07:28:27 PM
Hi Leni
Take a look at my bowl not quite the same but very close, I feel mine could be Monart
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Frank on January 30, 2008, 08:10:57 PM
Tony

Definitely not Monart, probably English and I think a company Nigel is researching but not yet revealing.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: David E on January 31, 2008, 09:24:01 AM
I wonder which company first derived the mushroom shape? Monart, perhaps, or was it much earlier? The shapes can be seen from pottery companies as well, of course, so it might have been copied from here.
Title: Re: Mushroom bowl
Post by: Frank on January 31, 2008, 10:47:02 AM
The idea is to give a dome of flowers low on the table, Monart used many pottery shapes so I would expect the idea to be a fair bit earlier.