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Glass / Re: Who made this Vase ?
« Last post by Ekimp on Yesterday at 09:37:45 PM »
I quite like some of the Romanian glass with the applied decoration, they seem to have their own unique style. I have a Jon Art satin perfume bottle with non metallic applied decoration. It is very organic…but in an alien sort of way :) The base finish of that is similar to Smitty’s vase.
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Glass / Re: Who made this Vase ?
« Last post by Smitty on Yesterday at 06:28:11 PM »
Did the Talcum Powder trick. I can say with confidence that there is no signature anywhere on the piece.
Thanks again for everyone interest.  I'm working on the suggestions and will message any progress.
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Glass / Re: Who made this Vase ?
« Last post by chopin-liszt on Yesterday at 06:20:32 PM »
You may have hit the right trail, m.   :)
I've googled, and seen several Romblast works with this satinated finish, and some in the same lilac shade, there are loads of pieces with added metallic strapping - but Romblast has been around for some time.
I bought an enormous vase in TKMaxx about 24 years ago, which shows yet another style.
There's a not terribly good pic of my vase here. It's got Beranek tropical flowers in it.
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php?topic=45707.10
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Not sure if you have this information from this source, i came across it tonight.
British table and ornamental glass by L.M Angus-Butterworth. Published 1956.
"In 1837 a pair of glass girandoles,or branching candlesticks, coloured yellow by a salt of uranium were presented to Queen Adelaide"
Tim

I wonder if the reference for these candelabra (L.M. Angus-Butterworth 1956) came from the wording in Harry J Powell's book - Glassmaking in England 1923?  I don't have the book but on searching online brought up this:
https://archive.org/stream/dli.bengal.10689.10443/10689.10443_djvu.txt
On page 131 of that book  (info from search on the internet) it says:
page 130 ...
'At the present time there are hundreds of varieties of glass, differing
from each other' in chemical composition. To this list the Whitefriars
Works have contributed a fair share. The advertisement of 1710 refers
to two varieties of flint-glass, “ best ” and “ ordinary ”: unfortunately the



... continuing on page 131

recipes have disappeared, but the two kinds probably differecf in the
quality of sand, or in the proportion of red-lead. Until the hampering
excise regulations had been withdrawn, little could be done towards the
scientific development of the industry. It is, however, recorded that in
1837 a pair of glass girandoles, coloured yellow by the addition of a salt
of uranium to the ordinary flint mixture, were presented to Queen
Adelaide.'


In reference to this, as I mentioned in my post here:
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,70066.msg391911.html#msg391911

it appears from what Barrie Skelcher wrote, that the candelabra were in fact silver with uranium glass droplets and presented in 1836.  So perhaps Harry J Powell and Barrie Skelcher were either writing about a different set of girandoles ... or used a different way of describing them,  as it seems unlikely two uranium glass sets would have been presented one year after the other?
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The 'uranium glass butter dish' should have read 'honey'. 
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You have the best answer you will get on here. There are only a few core members who pop in these days.
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A uranium glass butter dish bottom from Islington Glass works Birmingham dating to late 1840s here on linked thread.  It's pressed glass but shows the colour of the uranium glass from c.1849 (see Art Union Journal October 1849 page 307 for engraving of the butter in the links in the thread):
https://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,73283.msg407097.html#msg407097

Also note on the Art Union Journal page 314 (dated October 1849) a reference to the fact that 'not long ago' the (?coloured) glass for brass was all supplied from foreign sources and that now they 'believe' all parts are manufactured 'at home':
https://archive.org/details/sim_art-journal-us_1849-10-01_11/page/314/mode/2up
That was 1849. 
The Queen Victoria uranium glass bowls were apparently made for 1837 - cut and engraved.  That's 12 years earlier than this comment in the Art Union Journal.



See also their footnotes on the bottom of page 314 !  The notes don't indicate to me that anything like the QV uranium glass bowls were being produced 'at home' in 1837.
https://archive.org/details/sim_art-journal-us_1849-10-01_11/page/314/mode/2up

See also page 294 on this link (1849) middle column bottom of the column,  where the use of colour is extolled v previous years and the strength of overseas glass imports in previous years:
https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_art_journal_London/65BCAAAAcAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=uranium+oxide+cornwall+mine+1817&pg=PA137&printsec=frontcover


I'm finding lots of information directly from source articles dating to pre 1852 that indicate these bowls were not made in Great Britain in 1837.  I'm not coming across anything that might even indicate they could have been. 

If anyone has any further thoughts/sources I'd be very grateful :)
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Thank you Neil.  I'm going to add this info to the supposed Queen Victoria Coronation Banquet V&A 1830s uranium bowl thread.
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Is the reference from this The Art Union October 1849? - see page 307

https://archive.org/details/sim_art-journal-us_1849-10-01_11/page/306/mode/2up
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