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Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: greenglass on March 06, 2006, 11:00:30 AM
Hi everbody, It is a beautiful day here today.  I have a question please about a piece of glass that I bought at a Car Boot Sale this last weekend. I am a glassaholic and I have a collection of over 500 pieces from the late 1800's up to the 1950's.  This piece caught my eye and I just love it but I would love to know where it was made and when.  Can anyone help please.   I have just joined this Forum and having read some of the posts I think I could become addicted to this forum as I am addicted to glass.  Thankyou in anticipation. Sheila.

http://i2.tinypic.com/qso1ec.jpg
http://i2.tinypic.com/qso2ua.jpg

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Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Leni on March 06, 2006, 02:40:50 PM
Wow!   :shock:  Sheila, that is stunning!   :shock:  :D  I'm sooooo envious!  (http://www.smileys.ws/smls/cheeky/00000012.gif)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Frank on March 06, 2006, 02:50:52 PM
Superb design!
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: pamela on March 06, 2006, 03:01:41 PM
Hi Sheila - welcome to GMB  :D

absolutely gorgeous bowl

I did not find out the maker so far but still digging

Are you that kind Sheila that sold to me the green pin dish lately?
here it is:

http://www.pressglas-pavillon.de/aschenbecher/03477.html

In the affirmative, would you please inform whether and when you are going to list this beauty also  :P   :?:   :wink:
Title: Little Intaglio Pin Dish
Post by: greenglass on March 06, 2006, 03:19:55 PM
Hi Pamela,  Yes I did sell you my little pin dish, it was a little beauty wasn't it.  Glad you were pleased with it.  I may just keep this bowl for a while to enjoy it before I sell it, although I just cannot keep everything that I find, that is not practical.  Regards  Sheila
Title: Re: Little Intaglio Pin Dish
Post by: Leni on March 06, 2006, 03:48:47 PM
Quote from: "greenglass"
I may just keep this bowl for a while to enjoy it before I sell it

 :x No! :x No!  :x Sell it!   :twisted: Sell it to meeee!   :twisted:  :twisted:

 :oops:
Title: More of my glass
Post by: greenglass on March 06, 2006, 03:56:10 PM
Hello Leni, Here are a couple more photographs of my glass as promised. Sheila
http://i2.tinypic.com/qsqvqf.jpg         This is Lalique circa 1930 I believe
http://i2.tinypic.com/qsr411.jpg          Not sure if the bowl on this is the original but it sits on the three graces just right
http://i2.tinypic.com/qsr1fl.jpg           The vase is a new piece from a local glassmaker.  I just could not resist it.  The photo does not do it justice.  She is making me a Chandelier the same colour as the Lalique candlestick.  
The blue figurine I believe is Cambridge Glass, Bashful Charlotte.


I must not take up too much space with my photograps so hope you enjoy these.  Sheila :D
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: chopin-liszt on March 06, 2006, 04:21:19 PM
:D:D:D

Hello and welcome! Thanks for these lovely pictures - who is your local glassmaker? You can't show us these wonderful pictures and not let on who made them!!!! :P :P :P

Who made the 4 opalescent pieces, what are they?

Is all your glass as lovely as this? :shock::shock::shock:

Can we see all of it? 8)8)8)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 06, 2006, 04:38:22 PM
The Three Graces - is it Walther? Pamela says yes but I have seen it as given Jobling. And I want one!! :evil:
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Glen on March 06, 2006, 05:02:45 PM
There are two versions of the Three Graces.

Jobling made one that is "all in one". The base and the top are one piece only.

Walther's version is in two pieces. The bowl at the top fits on the base by means of a glass "peg".

I have the Jobling in pale blue and the Walther in vaseline. They are equally lovely. The Walther version is a little larger overall.

Glen

BTW....I ADORE that bowl you just found Sheila. Magnificent.
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Leni on March 06, 2006, 05:22:50 PM
:D Thanks so much for sharing these lovely pics, Sheila!   :D

How lucky to have found a bowl with fits your 'Three Graces', even if it is not the original!  I so often see these ladies without their bowl, being sold as a candlestick   :x  :roll:  

I love your new vase, too! :D  But I still like the first bowl best   :twisted:  :wink: (http://www.smileys.ws/smls/grinning/00000043.gif)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: glasswipe on March 06, 2006, 07:20:41 PM
The green bowl with the three fish is the same as the one I have in the Rosalin colour. :lol: I have been trying to post a picture of mine for the last two days.I have been all over the internet and in books but have been unable to identify it.
Hopefully someone will be able to help both of us out.
I have tried to post on tiny pics as well as Annes' gallery.
Fingers crossed for help,Kindest regards,Kay
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: glasswipe on March 06, 2006, 07:28:29 PM
http://i2.tinypic.com/qsw74o
I hope this is my picture of the three fishes bowl in the Rosalin colour.
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Leni on March 06, 2006, 07:50:10 PM
Yes!   :D How lovely!   :shock:

But of course, I prefer the green   :twisted:  :wink:
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Frank on March 06, 2006, 07:52:32 PM
I'll have yours Kay :lol: not often I get impressed by pressed glass design but this one is superb.
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 06, 2006, 07:57:31 PM
Still banging on about the Three Graces I'm afraid, but I think I've solved the probelm. I've had a look at Wayne's site (Crystal two-part (http://www.20thcenturyglass.com/glass_encyclopedia/jobling_glass/jobling_3gracescomport.htm)) and I think the difference is in actually in the level of detail and the base design because Wayne's Jobling crystal Three Graces is a two-parter, but the ladies have more detail than the Walther and a round base. There also seem to be two versions of the Jobling Three Graces, see www.black-poppy.co.uksold/jobling/list.htm. One is an all-in-one, the other the two-part model
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Bernard C on March 06, 2006, 08:31:39 PM
Sheila — your fish bowl is not British, at least I am 99.999% certain.

Christine — nor is the two-part Three Graces shown at http://www.black-poppy.co.uk/sold/jobling/list.htm

The Jobling Three Graces is a Franckhauser masterpiece of the finest quality.   I have a green example in stock, which always attracts attention when I have it on my stand at fairs.   Jobling did not make a two-part Three Graces.   However they did make a few trial examples of a third centrepiece figurine, a tall slim figure.   Sunderland Museum possesses at least four of these rarities, and many years ago I saw one that had escaped into the outside world.

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: B & M on March 06, 2006, 09:02:56 PM
Sheila your fish bowl is beautiful. I have seen the design both in an open bowl and a vase. I am sure I have seen these attributred to Sevres in the past but I am equally sure that is incorrect. I am 99% positive that I have seen this design in a post war Czech catalogue which also showed some of the Inwald/ Barolac patterns. I never had the complete catalogue, just a couple of scans but will have a look and see if I can find anything more.

Steven
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Anne on March 06, 2006, 09:15:45 PM
Quote from: "glasswipe"
I have tried to post on tiny pics as well as Annes' gallery.
Fingers crossed for help,Kindest regards,Kay


Kay, there are size limits on GlassGallery - 200kb file size maximum and the image itself must not be more than 2048 pixels in aspect (that is either the height or the width must not exceed 2048 pixels). If you adjust your image to be less than these limits you should be able to upload to GlassGallery. If you still have problems or cannot resize them, e-mail me (link below) and I can either help out or upload the pics for you. :)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 06, 2006, 10:10:59 PM
I'm confused. I know which version is Walther. Does this mean there are four types of Three Graces? Black Poppy has two versions with similar looking figures but different tops and bases to the upright (and Wayne has one of these), is either Jobling?
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Bernard C on March 06, 2006, 10:22:14 PM
Quote from: "Lustrousstone"
... Black Poppy has two versions with similar looking figures but different tops and bases to the upright (and Wayne has one of these), is either Jobling?

Christine — Black Poppy has pictures of two identical Jobling Three Graces, one in blue (column 1 row 4) and another in pink (column 1 row 2).

Baker & Crowe has the definitive story of this Jobling range, only lacking information on trial pieces, such as the third centrepiece figurine, that never went into production.    Also several variants of colour and shape have since turned up in the market place; for example I have a pierced salad bowl and underlying plate set in stock, made from a modified mould, which is not recorded in the book.    Also, with one or two exceptions, it does not discuss what happened to the moulds after Jobling disposed of them.

It is an excellent read, packed with information.   Second-hand copies attract high prices, but you should be able to borrow one through your local library via inter-library loan.

Bernard C.  8)
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: greenglass on March 07, 2006, 11:33:07 AM
Hi everbody.  Thanks to Kay, Christine, Bernard Steven and Frank for all your comments regarding the fish bowl.  Yes I love the bowl, in fact I like it more every time I look at it.  The wavy pattern depicting water on the bowl seems to have a sort of glow with it in the way that it reflects the light.  I also love your rose coloured bowl Kay, beautiful.  I am still hoping we will come up with the answer as to who made this beautiful piece.  Thanks Steve for all your efforts, much appreciated.  
I am not sure where I am with the three graces stand and bowl.  Still not sure if they go together or who made them.  I have a three graces in pink also but unfortunately without the bowl.  The pink one does not seem to have the quality of the green vaseline one though, when compared side by side.  I do have quite a lot of nice pieces of glass. The opalescent glass to the back of the lalique water carrier in the photo is a lampshade made by Ezan in the 1950's.  I think this was part of a chandelier, I am actually offering this piece for auction this week.  

I will post some more pictures later.   My thanks to you all.  Sheila
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Lustrousstone on March 07, 2006, 12:40:38 PM
:idea: Light has dawned. Thanks very much Bernard.
Title: Question regarding pressed glass
Post by: Bernard C on March 07, 2006, 02:27:17 PM
Quote from: "Lustrousstone"
... Light has dawned. ...

Christine — only too pleased to help.   I hope you enjoy Baker & Crowe.   That, along with Simon Cottle's Sowerby and Roger Dodsworth's British Glass between the Wars, here often referred to just by the initials BGbtW, established the standard for subsequent reference works, however published, and form the core of my little reference library.   All three are well worth seeking out and studying, and are packed with useful information.

I hope you can make Harrogate on Sunday.   It's not that far from you.   I will bring all three books so you can see their quality for yourself.

Bernard C.  8)