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Davidson Pearline Bowl / basket

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Glen:
This piece intrigues me. It is so very similar to the "novelties" shown in the 1891 and 1893 Pottery Gazette ads for Davidson's Pearline (Slack "English Pressed Glass" p 74 and Stewart & Stewart "Davidson Glass" p 82). Similar feet, similar concentric rings around the top, similar ribbed pattern, similar colour of glass and so on. The difference is that the ribs are twisted/swirled and the pieces in the Pottery Gazette ads have one, two or three handles, but none are shown with four handles.

How tall is it, Roy? And are the little handles moulded or applied?

Bernard C:
Glen — Interesting.   The tiny handles are similar to those on the two-handled "BASKET, 240" shown in the PG advertisement shown in Stewart & Stewart.   However the ribs on this basket are clearly vertical, and I cannot think of any reason why a 240 four-handled basket would be so dramatically twisted.   Why should Davidson make a four-handled basket so differently from their two-handled basket?

There seem to be two explanations.   Either Davidson did make a similar twisted rib range, about which as yet we have no documentary evidence (the possibility of a retailer exclusive springs to mind, amongst others), or it's not Davidson.   Either seems quite possible.

Bernard C.  8)

mhgcgolfclub:
Hi

Thanks for all that information, firstly it is one of a pair the other one leans slightly , I will be selling them and I will include a thread to the GMB , to be honest I paid too much for them  , but I thought they would be intersting as I had not seen this pattern before and thought they may or may not be Davidson and would put them on the GMB to see what comments were made
They both stand approx 2.5" tall and the handles are moulded not applied you can see mould lines running through handles
Another piece I think is Davidson again very similar to the 261 pattern but with a wavy rim

regards roy 

Glen:
Thanks for the extra information, Roy. The diminutive size of your little piece is another tick in the box for similarity to those items known to be Davidson's.

A spill vase with ruffled rim is shown in the Davidson's ad from the 1893 Pottery Gazette shown in Slack (ref. in my post above).

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