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Author Topic: Sowerby Opalescent (blanc de lat) small “gathering apples” 1882  (Read 962 times)

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Re: Sowerby Opalescent (blanc de lat) small “gathering apples” 1882
« Reply #30 on: November 30, 2022, 04:52:16 PM »
I think it's just quite difficult to keep on top of all new information when there is limited resource in terms of time and people.

Glass also often takes a back seat compared to silver and china/pottery and paintings.  I've no idea why because it seems to me the works of art in glass are many times more difficult to create than those in silver or china.

I went to the Musee des Art Decoratifs in Paris with a non-glassy friend recently.  When I explained how some of the opalines were developed and also how some of the art nouveau pieces and pate de verre were made, she was suddenly completely intrigued by the complexity of the glass.  She had assumed in her head that they were all just blown into a mold in some way, in different colours, so was about to walk on.  Afterwards her comment was if the museum had actually written some of this information on  how the pieces were made and placed it alongside the pieces on display, then she'd have been much more interested in reading about them and looking at them. 

It's a crying shame when the complexity and history of these stunning pieces of glass art (whether handblown masterpieces or pressed glass rare objects ) is lost amongst the oil paintings and giant bits of silver.  They're missing a trick in engaging a wider audience.

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Re: Sowerby Opalescent (blanc de lat) small “gathering apples” 1882
« Reply #31 on: December 01, 2022, 08:32:45 PM »
For viewers of the thread to show which items are under discussion, here are two of the 'Griffin/Gryphon/(Swan - but could referring to them as Swan vases cause confusion a) between these and the Sowerby vases and also b) they look like Swans, in chains, but have a clawed foot it seems to me? )' vases that are in the V&A collection.


https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O7150/vase-edward-moore/

The V&A has them as 'probably Edward Moore' but it seems there is no definitive id on this vase so far.


These are different to the Swan vases from Sowerby which appear on the Advertisement referred to earlier in the thread (see bottom photo here)
http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,72358.msg402660.html#msg402660


Lots of information on this 'Edward Moore'? Griffin / Gryphon vases on this previous thread here:

http://www.glassmessages.com/index.php/topic,46854.msg263492.html#msg263492

Found in museum in Brno one which is apparently 25cm tall.



The 25cm tall one was in the Moravská gallery in Brno
Photographs here but no identification.
source: Pressglas-Korrespondenz 2006-4
https://pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2006-4w-stopfer-moore-vase-schwaene.pdf

There is a strangely coloured green one here: (see page 7)
https://www.pressglas-korrespondenz.de/aktuelles/pdf/pk-2008-2w-vogt-slag-glass.pdf

 

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